New Orleans Architecture: The Cemeteries

by Leonard V. Huber

Book Overview

Quite possibly the most comprehensive architectural examination of any American city.
-Landscape Architecture Magazine

The tourist who does not visit at least one of the old cemeteries just a few blocks from the French Quarter misses an inimitable experience in sepulchral urban design.
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In New Orleans, cemeteries are known as cities of the dead. Because the city is located below sea level, buried coffins...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565542703
• ISBN13: 9781565542709
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.0" x 11.5"