As a Proud Board Member and Programs Chairwoman of
INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE & ART - LOUISIANA CHAPTER
Join me and my colleagues on a
”FRENCH QUARTER WALKING TOUR & LUNCH”
Celebrating the Inaugural
“A. Hays Town Awards 2023”
Winners will be recognized at an awards ceremony on June 17, 2023
at Latrobe's on Royal, 403 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
Tickets are available at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-hays-town-awards-ceremony-tickets-590124096057
BEFORE THE CEREMONY BEGINS AT 6PM,
JOIN US FOR A MORNING TOUR OF
FOUR PRIVATE CLASSICAL BUILDINGS IN THE FRENCH QUARTER AND ENDING WITH A SUMPTUOUS LUNCH OVERLOOKING JACKSON SQUARE
CATERED BY PIGEON CATERERS.
In honor of the First Annual A. Hays Town Awards the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art, Louisiana Chapter is hosting a walking tour of four classical French Quarter buildings, followed by a sumptuous buffet lunch on a balcony overlooking historic Jackson Square. At every stop, we will be guided by experts in the architecture and history of the building!
ITINERARY
8:45am Meet in the lobby of Monteleone Hotel, 214 Royal Street
9:00am Walking tour leaves hotel.
9:15am US Custom House/The Magnificent Marble Hall, 423 Canal Street
10:15am Casa Finard, 723 Toulouse Street
11:00am The Pedesclaux-LeMonnier House, 640 Royal Street
12:00pm Lower Pontalba Apartment, 539 St. Ann Street. Sumptuous buffet lunch will be served.
Pigéon Caterers will be providing our SUMPTUOUS BUFFET LUNCH at the Lower Pontalba apartment! Lunch Menu will include the following food items (crisp wine and drinks will be included as well):
Mini Muffalettas
Cheese Board
Gulf Shrimp
Deviled Eggs
Gruyere Bacon Tartlet
Duck Quesadillas
Lemon Square
REGISTRATION COST
This special event is open to ICAA members for: $155
To become a member, simply register yourself on our website: https://www.classicist-la.org/join/
PRINT OFF THE TOUR PACKET
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Our fabulous French Quarter tour of four classical buildings will end at the historic Pontlaba Building for a lunch served overlooking Jackson Square.
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THE MARVELOUS MARBLE HALL OF THE U.S. CUSTOM HOUSE
The U.S. Custom House in New Orleans is one of the oldest and most important federal buildings in the southern United States and one of the major works of architecture commissioned by the federal government in the nineteenth century. This monumental granite building was begun in 1848 and built over a period of 33 years. The magnificent Marble Hall in the center of the building is one of the finest Greek Revival interiors in the United States with Egyptian Revival details.
CASA FINNARD
Built in 1808 by architect-builder Hilaire Boutté for Valery Nicholas, this 2-story masonry building served as a gunsmith shop with residence above. It was acquired in 1939 by Mrs. Alvin Hovey-King, one of the pioneers in the preservation of the Quarter.
PEDESCLAUX-LE MONNIER HOUSE
The Pedesclaux-Le Monnier House is one of the most important landmarks from New Orleans’s Spanish Colonial period. Constructed soon after the fire of 1794, probably according to the designs of French architect Barthelemy Lafon, the building was completed in 1811 by the noted local architects Latour and Laclotte. Originally a 3-story entresol structure, this townhouse incorporates characteristics of 18th c. building traditions, such as bold stucco moldings, a horizontal emphasis balanced by strong pilaster treatment, curvilinear walls and a clear, ordered treatment of bays and openings. Although the upper level openings are original, the ground floor openings were altered first c. 1850 and then in the 20th century.
LOWER PONTALBA BUILDING
The row houses were built by Micaela Almonester, Baroness de Pontalba in 1849-1851. In those days a family rented three floors for living quarters, subleasing the ground floor as a store or shop. The second floor became the dining, living, and occasionally, library rooms. On the third floor were the bedrooms. The ground floor wing housed the kitchen and smokehouse, and the laundry. The second and third floor wings were bedrooms for household slaves or boys of the family. These apartments were first leased at public auction in February of 1851, when the lessees paid a premium of $95 to $325 to become tenants. The rooms were furnished in French and American Empire Style as well as by New Orleans cabinet makers working in the style of Louis Phillippe of France, rather than that of Victoria of England. Drapes with their lambrequins or valances, overhangings, and loopings were arranged in a manner dictated by fashion plates from Paris. There were many French, Creole, and American artists working in New Orleans during that period, and excellent Victorian and Primitive oils hung in the apartments. Today, he lower Pontalba Building is owned by the State of Louisiana and leased to the public for residental and commercial spaces.