Mid City homes in New Orleans have a tremendous variety of historic homes and styles.  You just have to look at these homes that are within several blocks of each other to see the styles.  Few of these are found any where else in the City.

The raised cottage pictured above is one that is very unique as it the plantation like home below.

     One of the more beautiful corners on Royal Street in the New Orleans French Quarter.  Always some great hanging ferns and the hanging angels.  So suited to the culture of New Orleans.  Always kept up to a tee. Hope you enjoy these as much as I have.

     Summer has Hit New Orleans but these are some homes as Spring was coming to a full bloom.  Its the combination of colors and historic details of these historic New Orleans homes.  Homes are well taken care of and  the lush gardens follow a two week period where we got 12-15 inches of rain. New Orleans and  Mobile , Alabama receive as much rain as any city in the Continental USA.  Hilo, Hawaii gets more rain…

       Once a year I like to really get away and check out another part of the country when things are quiet.  Our first big stop this year was Crater Lake, Oregon.  Yes it did snow and was down to 21 degrees on May 17, 2013.  The range said it has snowed every day except one in the last 40 years. High 40′s during the day was like air conditioning outside….

     Formed by a volcano, the crater is about 7700 feet evevation.  This is the deepest lake in America measuring about 1960 feet deep.  The Lodge was cool and the views were great.  This is the first day it was open in 2013 so we were the first Louisiana people to visit this year…

    Historic New Orleans Porches and the flora that surrounds and decorates them in our sub tropical climate are a well site on our hot and humid Summer days to come.  Right now they are perfect to watch the world go by.  The “Smile” set the tone for these homes.  Large or Small, Yellow Green and Blue they are all eye candy for lovers of historic homes…… 

      The Rayne Memorial Methodist Church is located at 3900 St. Charles Ave.  It is a rare example in New Orleans of a Gothich Revival Church in New Orleans.  It was built in 1875 as St. Charles Ave. continued to grow into the Uptown area after the Civil War had ended. Really a prety church with spire and stained glass windows….

     The Bracket Style in New Orleans was popular in the period from about 1880 to the early 1900′s.  It is often called the “New Orleans Mill Work Style”  and “Victorian Italianate”. You will often see rows of homes with very similar brackets  as the were all ordered from Mill work Catalogues of the day.  They were colored to different but nothing like the vibrant colors we see in these homes today.

     Most of the homes were shotgun singles and doubles that featured these brackets.  Frequently they were ornimental in nature rather than structural.  Am so glad the lasted as long as they have.  Most were made of Cypress that just lasts and lasts…..New Orleans has the greatest collection of these homes in the World.  Treasure they are…

     French Quarter Corners make some grat photos.  The wrap around gallery is common in this area of town.  Notice  the curve in the galleries.  The placement of the doors are also unique on these old buildings.  They all had to be some sort of retail space in the day.  These are just a sample of the color and the variety in the area…

    These are my favorites from this weeks shots in the French Quarter.  Jazz Fest started this week so the City of New Orleans was getting ready.  With recent rains everything was ready to spring to life and it did on the light and breezy day.  I was using a wide angle lens 10×22 so you can really get a lot in with one shot…..Lets see what I can find next week in New Olreans…

    Love these old homes and it does remind you of a plantation of yesterday and some may just very well be.  But these are in a urban area in Uptown New Orleans.  If you do a lot of walking you just stumble on these and wonder how you have missed these.  These are just a few that I walked across the past week.  Bet my friend Angela would like one of these…lol..