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General view from Rue Touline looking to north - Front Street (Commercial Buildings), Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, LA
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Jack E. Boucher
Title
General view from Rue Touline looking to north - Front Street (Commercial Buildings), Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, LA
Description

Front Street within the Natchitoches Historic District — in downtown Natchitoches, northern Louisiana.

  • Cane River National Heritage Area Commission, sponsor; Morgan, Nancy I, M, sponsor; Price, Virginia Barrett, transmitter; Cane River National Heritage Area Commission, sponsor; Arzola, Robert, project manager; Falvey, Bryan Scott, field team; Hagensick, Thomas Vincent, field team; Szenasi, Zsolt, field team; Szenasi, Zsolt; Boucher, Jack E, photographer; Rosenthal, James, photographer; Wilson, Jon Lamar, historian
Depicted place Louisiana; Natchitoches Parish; Natchitoches
Date 2002
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS LA-1319-2
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The architectural history of Front Street closely resembles the outline of Louisiana's economic history with most buildings stemming from high economic plateaus.
  • Thus there are three buildings from the late antebellum period that represent Louisiana's vernacular architecture of the plantation era with their multiple asymmetrical French doors, front-gable roofs with setback facades, and second-story porches.
  • Other buildings dating from the 1880s are characteristic of their epoch. These buildings tend to mirror larger, national trends in commercial architecture with their decorated cast-iron facades and tall ornate parapets.
  • There are numerous buildings from the first two decades of the twentieth century that incorporate the stylistic refinement of revival architecture, most notably, a Romanesque Revival three-story building and a one-story Mission Revival.
  • Finally, the strong economy of postwar America left its mark on Front Street through the "modernization" of many ground level commercial spaces along Front Street, occurring in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N983
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N983; N1022
  • Survey number: HABS LA-1319
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/la0454.photos.210435p
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
Camera location31° 45′ 38.02″ N, 93° 05′ 10″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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