[Octagonal cupola and dormered windows of Girod House, New Orleans, Louisiana] / Alvyk Boyd Cruise. – Historic Print
![[Octagonal cupola and dormered windows of Girod House, New Orleans, Louisiana] / Alvyk Boyd Cruise., [between 1935 and 1939] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/32/32b031cbdd93-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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[Octagonal cupola and dormered windows of Girod House, New Orleans, Louisiana] / Alvyk Boyd Cruise. comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Octagonal cupola and dormered windows of Girod House, New Orleans, Louisiana] / Alvyk Boyd Cruise.
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The cupola on this watercolor is octagonal and rises above a roofline of dormer windows, the features that distinguish the Girod House from the flat-roofed brick and stucco buildings around it in the French Quarter of New Orleans. The house was built in the early 1800s for Nicolas Girod, a mayor of the city, and is better known today as the Napoleon House. Alvyk Boyd Cruise painted the view between 1935 and 1939 as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey, a New Deal program that recorded older American buildings in drawings and photographs. Its careful rendering of the roof and its ornamental details makes it a useful record of how the building looked during the Depression years.
| Created / published | [between 1935 and 1939] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : watercolor |
| Genre | Watercolors 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Historic American Buildings Survey, LA 36 Newor 8. No. 125. Forms part of the Historic American Buildings Survey collection. |
| Subjects | Cupolas--Louisiana--New Orleans--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,176 × 1,480 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218682 |
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