Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful double-pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn’t move.
— Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Vol. 1, 2004
Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
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