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..

     The Beauregard Keyes Homes and Gardens is at the corner of Uruslines and Chartres.  This beautiful Garden is set to the origional plans of 1865 and is maintained as such.  The fountain was added at at later date.  You may miss this little piece of New Orleans but here it is from several different angles so you can enjoy it as much as I have…. 

    Two of my favorite subjects when photographing homes are the proches and balconies.  Then you add in Spring and it really brightens the neighborhood.  Front the simple cottages and shot guns to the mansions along St. Charles Ave. The Tropical weather allows us to have these wonderful colors that other places do not get to have.

    All are colorful, historic, vastly different styles and all are within a block of each other on Esplanade Avenue that splits the French Quarter of New Orleans with the Marginy.   Of course there were plenty more but this is just a few that caught my eye last Friday.   You can publish volumes of the neat homes and buildings that line this famous New Orleans Avenue.

      From cute color cottages to large historic mansions, New Orleans has them all.  They are all free to look at and get your walking in.  After walking you can catch the streetcar to Canal Street or to Carrolton Ave.