Lost New Orleans: a Social and Architectural History, with Emphasis on Destroyed Landmarks

FAIN: RS-10113-77

Mary Cable
Unaffiliated independent scholar

To publish a detailed account, with photographs of New Orleans’ unique social history, showing how the city's architecture evolved from special requirements of climate, terrain, and custom. The book is under contract to Houghton - Mifflin for publication. The book will be designed to arouse the interest and civic indignation of the general public, in New Orleans and wherever else our national heritage of fine, useable old buildings is being thoughtlessly destroyed.