930 POYDRAS STREET

摘要

Few American cities embody "place" quite like New Orleans, where European, African, and Caribbean traditions are blended in a kind of cultural jambalaya. The city's architecture reflects this same multiculturalism, particularly in the French Quarter, which still bears the lasting imprint of Spanish rulers. Their insistence on masonry construction produced an explosion of Creole townhouses- buildings with thick, solid walls punctuated by breezeways leading to courtyards, fountains, and lush interior gardens.