French Quarter Manual: An Architectural Guide to New Orleans Vieux Carre

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Summary: French Quarter Manual: An Architectural Guide to New Orleans
Review: As a part-time resident of the Vieux Carre, and one who very reluctantly leaves to return to New York, I keep this book in my New York home to look through when I long for New Orleans. This book, with its elegant balck and white historic photos and its vivid descriptive text, captures the best of the Vieux Carre. In fact, I have had great fun trying to match the historic photos to the contemporary Vieux Carre sites on my visits to the Quarter.

I love this book, it's a wonderful gift to anyone who loves that amazing and magical place known as the Vieux Carre.

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Summary: A must for preservationists and architectural historians
Review: Tender in prose, painstaking in research, passionate in creation. A worthy addition to any architectural library.