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[Girod House (New Orleans, La.). Window and balcony] – Antique Print

[Girod House (New Orleans, La.). Window and balcony], 1937 June. — historic drawing
[Girod House (New Orleans, La.). Window and balcony], 1937 June.. Historic drawing from the New Orleans collection.

(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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This rare historic drawing captures [Girod House (New Orleans, La.). Window and balcony] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The window and balcony of the Girod House, a Chartres Street building in New Orleans' French Quarter, are the focus of this 1937 watercolor by Alvyk Boyd Cruise. Nicholas Girod, who served as mayor of New Orleans in the years after the Louisiana Purchase, is associated with the house, which later became widely known as the Napoleon House. Cruise made the drawing as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey, a Depression-era federal project that recorded older American buildings in careful drawings and photographs. Its delicate rendering of the ironwork and shuttered openings shows the French Quarter's blend of colonial-era design and later changes.

Created / published1937 June.
Medium1 drawing : watercolor.
NotesDrawing by Alvyk Boyd Cruise. Ref. copy may be in HABS LA, 36-NEWOR, 8-. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Forms part of the Historic American Buildings Survey collection.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,158 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176388

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