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Oblique view of office-apartment - Hotel Palomar Courts, 3975 Greenwood Road, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, LA
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Oblique view of office-apartment - Hotel Palomar Courts, 3975 Greenwood Road, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, LA
Description
Wilcox, Jeff; Rinaudo, Charles; Carwile, Guy W, faculty sponsor; Louisiana Tech University, School of Architecture, sponsor; Louisiana State Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, sponsor; Young, Kelly E, transmitter; Blake, Michael, delineator; Carson, Becky, delineator; Johnson, Billisha, delineator; Langham, Jay, delineator; Rath, Benjamin, delineator; Zabala, Raymond I, delineator; Carwile, Guy, photographer
Depicted place Louisiana; Caddo Parish; Shreveport
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 2.25 x 2.25
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-1308-13
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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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  • 2003 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place
  • Significance: The Hotel Palomar Courts (currently known as the Palomar Motel) is an early example of a motor court (or tourist court) building type. Motor courts are one of the most significant architectural contributions to the early automobile age in the United States. Between 1908 with the introduction of the Model "T" and 1941 with America's entry into World War II, over 20,000 motor courts or camps were built in this country. Subsequent changes in culture, lifestyle, and taste have caused the near extinction of this authentic building type from the American landscape. As such, typological examples such as the Palomar are relatively rare. The Palomar is one of only three known examples of a cottage style tourist court remaining in Louisiana. The state's other extant tourist courts, the Teche Motel in New Iberia and the Three V Courts in St. Francisville, differ from the Palomar in that their cottages are linked by intervening carports and/or garages. In contrast, the Palomar is mostly comprised of totally unlinked freestanding cottages - unique in Louisiana and rare in the United States of surviving tourist courts.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N923
  • Survey number: HABS LA-1308
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1937- 1939 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: after 1944 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/la0433.photos.210315p
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