The Faubourg Marigny of New Orleans

A History

Nonfiction, Travel, History, Americas, United States
Cover of the book The Faubourg Marigny of New Orleans by Scott S. Ellis, LSU Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Scott S. Ellis ISBN: 9780807170052
Publisher: LSU Press Publication: October 3, 2018
Imprint: LSU Press Language: English
Author: Scott S. Ellis
ISBN: 9780807170052
Publisher: LSU Press
Publication: October 3, 2018
Imprint: LSU Press
Language: English

Leaving the crowded, tourist-driven French Quarter by crossing Esplanade Avenue, visitors and residents entering the Faubourg Marigny travel through rows of vibrantly colored Greek revival and Creole-style homes. For decades, this stunning architectural display marked an entry into a more authentic New Orleans. In the first complete history of this celebrated neighborhood, Scott S. Ellis chronicles the incomparable vitality of life in the Marigny, describes its architectural and social evolution across two centuries, and shows how many of New Orleans’s most dramatic events unfolded in this eclectic suburb.

Founded in 1805, the Faubourg Marigny benefited from waves of refugees and immigrants settling on its borders. Émigrés from Saint-Domingue, Germany, Ireland, and Italy, in addition to a large community of the city’s antebellum free people of color, would come to call Marigny home and contribute to its rich legacy. Shaped as well by epidemics and political upheaval, the young enclave hosted a post–Civil War influx of newly freed slaves seeking affordable housing and suffered grievous losses after deadly outbreaks of yellow fever. In the twentieth century, the district grew into a working-class neighborhood of creolized residents that eventually gave way to a burgeoning gay community, which, in turn, led to an era of “supergentrification” following Hurricane Katrina. Now, as with many historic communities in the heart of a growing metropolis, tensions between tradition and revitalization, informality and regulation, diversity and limited access contour the Marigny into an ever more kaleidoscopic picture of both past and present.

Equally informative and entertaining, this nuanced history reinforces the cultural value of the Marigny and the importance of preserving this alluring neighborhood.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Leaving the crowded, tourist-driven French Quarter by crossing Esplanade Avenue, visitors and residents entering the Faubourg Marigny travel through rows of vibrantly colored Greek revival and Creole-style homes. For decades, this stunning architectural display marked an entry into a more authentic New Orleans. In the first complete history of this celebrated neighborhood, Scott S. Ellis chronicles the incomparable vitality of life in the Marigny, describes its architectural and social evolution across two centuries, and shows how many of New Orleans’s most dramatic events unfolded in this eclectic suburb.

Founded in 1805, the Faubourg Marigny benefited from waves of refugees and immigrants settling on its borders. Émigrés from Saint-Domingue, Germany, Ireland, and Italy, in addition to a large community of the city’s antebellum free people of color, would come to call Marigny home and contribute to its rich legacy. Shaped as well by epidemics and political upheaval, the young enclave hosted a post–Civil War influx of newly freed slaves seeking affordable housing and suffered grievous losses after deadly outbreaks of yellow fever. In the twentieth century, the district grew into a working-class neighborhood of creolized residents that eventually gave way to a burgeoning gay community, which, in turn, led to an era of “supergentrification” following Hurricane Katrina. Now, as with many historic communities in the heart of a growing metropolis, tensions between tradition and revitalization, informality and regulation, diversity and limited access contour the Marigny into an ever more kaleidoscopic picture of both past and present.

Equally informative and entertaining, this nuanced history reinforces the cultural value of the Marigny and the importance of preserving this alluring neighborhood.

More books from LSU Press

Cover of the book Working Congress by Scott S. Ellis
Cover of the book Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans by Scott S. Ellis
Cover of the book The Biscuit Joint by Scott S. Ellis
Cover of the book George Mason by Scott S. Ellis
Cover of the book Fashion beyond Versailles by Scott S. Ellis
Cover of the book The Midlife Crisis of Commander Invincible by Scott S. Ellis
Cover of the book Rites of August First by Scott S. Ellis
Cover of the book Ministers and Masters by Scott S. Ellis
Cover of the book Imagining the Creole City by Scott S. Ellis
Cover of the book Frontiersman by Scott S. Ellis
Cover of the book When the War Was Over by Scott S. Ellis
Cover of the book Stripper in Wonderland by Scott S. Ellis
Cover of the book The Problem of Emancipation by Scott S. Ellis
Cover of the book Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women by Scott S. Ellis
Cover of the book God and General Longstreet by Scott S. Ellis
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy