L I V I N G WITH H I S T O RYIN NEW ORLEANS’ NEIGHBORHOODS

Published byPRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER

OF NEW ORLEANS923 TCHOUPITOULAS STREET

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70130504/581-7032www.prcno.org

1719 Included in land grant obtained by Jean Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, soon after he founded the city of Nouvelle Orleans

1857 Plans drawn up to drain the area1871 First drainage canal dug under

present day Claiborne Avenue1902 Pumping Station # 1 completed1910 New, large capacity screw pumps

designed by Albert Baldwin Woodinstalled at Pumping Station #1

1922 Andrew H. Wilson School opens1925 All of Broadmoor serviced by sewer

and water lines and public utilities and new streetcar lines establishedon S. Claiborne and Napoleon Avenues

1930 Publication of the Broadmoor Newsbegins, coinciding with formation of Broadmoor Civic Improvement Association

1970 Broadmoor Improvement Associationincorporated

1986 New Orleans Historic DistrictLandmarks Commission designates the Hardie-Fattel House a landmark

1999 Southeast Louisiana Flood Drainage Control Project begins four year endeavor to build new undergroundcanals in the area

2003 Broadmoor listed in the National Register of Historic Places

2005 Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans and Broadmoor submerged by floodwaters

2006 Broadmoor Improvement Association and Harvard University develop comprehensive rebuilding plan

PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW ORLEANSINVITES YOU TO EXPLORE THE LOCAL SIDE OF LIFE IN

BROADMOOR, AN ETHNICALLY AND ECONOMICALLY MIXEDNEIGHBORHOOD ON THE REBOUND AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA.

This brochure is made possible by a generous grantfrom the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities

BroadmoorBroadmoor

An architecturally, economically andracially diverse neighborhood, Broadmoor is situatedin the heart of the city. Although largely a 20th-centuryneighborhood, it began to be developed in the early1880s on marshy pasture land, which during heavyrains became a twelve-acre lake and favorite fishingspot for Uptowners.A Bayou St. Johntributary, which ranto the bayou fromwhat is presently St.Charles Avenue,filled the lake. In1873 there wasonly one registeredlandowner, but inthe mid-1870s plansto develop the areawere put intomotion. By 1885drainage canalshad been built tomove water out ofthe district. Now on the National Register of HistoricPlaces, Pumping Station #1 at South Broad andMelpomene streets was completed in 1902 (just out-side of the neighborhood’s boundaries.)

By the end of the first decade of the 20th centu-ry a small population resided in the area, and theSouth Claiborne Avenue and Napoleon Avenuestreetcar lines served the residents. The largest per-centage of construction occurred between 1920 and

Since 1974 the Preservation Resource Centerhas promoted the preservation, restorationand revitalization of New Orleans’ historic

neighborhoods and architecture.

marks in the district. Named after the noted civilrights and women’s rights activist, the tile-roofed, stuc-co, Arts and Crafts villa was built in 1918 and desig-nated a historic landmark under the name Hardie-Fattel House in 1986. It served as a residence until1990 when it was acquired by the city.

Broadmoor can claim one of the most unified neigh-borhood associations in the city, the BroadmoorImprovement Association. This descendent of theBroadmoor Civic Improvement Association was incor-porated in 1970, and its members are fiercely loyal topreserving the neighborhood’s historic atmosphere andarchitectural significance. The association’s role inrebuilding Broadmoor – badly flooded in the aftermathof Hurricane Katrina -- is exemplary. When plannerssuggested the neighborhood should return to greenspace, residents rallied. The association, with the assis-tance of Harvard College, completed a rebuilding planin record time. Racially mixed and containing stretchesof wealth as well as poverty, Broadmoor has one ofthe highest rates of return in the flooded parts of thecity. The neighborhood association (broadmoorim-provement.com) includes representatives from surround-ing areas, and an extension of the National Registerboundaries is under consideration.

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We encourage you to use good judgment andcommon sense in taking this tour.

Drive/Bike/Walk: From westbound Claiborne Avenueturn right onto Octavia Street.The homes here are repre-sentative of the architecture found throughoutBroadmoor fromvarious historicrevival styles toraised bungalows.Indeed, 41 percentof the homes inBroadmoor arebungalows.Theearliest homeswere raised, withfull story above-ground basementsand living quarterson the secondfloor. Octavia Street has a concentration of 1920s-1940stwo story brick or stucco Colonial Revival houses. Asyou approach Napoleon Avenue, notice the homes on thesouth side of the 4100 block of Fontainebleau. Of particu-lar interest is the Arts and Crafts villa at 4100Fontainebleau.This stucco house dates from 1918 andfeatures elaborate timberwork, diamond-paned casementwindows and an ornate tile roof.

Here, at the intersection of Fontainebleau Drive and

Napoleon Avenue, you are at whatis considered to be the heart ofBroadmoor.You may want to parkand cross Fontainebleau on foot totake a closer look at the Gloria DeiLutheran Church at the corner ofSouth Dupre and Fontainebleau.Built in 1952, this brick and cast-stone basilica features single-centerlancet openings and buttresses thatthrust above the roof.The front-fac-ing gable contains a stained-glassrose window, and the bell towerextends skyward through the limbsof the surrounding live oaks.Directly across from Gloria Dei, ona grassy island where NapoleonAvenue becomes Broad Street, isthe Broadmoor Playspot, a lovinglytended park enjoyed by the neigh-borhood children.

Cross Napoleon Avenue onfoot to visit the Rosa Keller Branchof the New Orleans Public Library.Formerly known as the Hardie-Fattel House, this landmark is onthe National Register. Return tothe west side of Napoleon andnote the two-story residence at3852 Napoleon.This stucco home,built in 1910, features prominentarches on impost blocks and isreminiscent of the Art Nouveaustyle of design. Next door at 3818-20 is a large, double house, resem-bling an Italian palazzo, that fea-tures an elegant arcade on the firstfloor and a dramatic columnar log-gia on the second floor.The tileroof of this rough stucco structurecontinues into prominent over-hangs.

Continue driving, riding, orwalking on Napoleon towardClaiborne Avenue, taking note ofthe extraordinary array of homes,the majority built in the 1930s. Oneither side of this wide avenue are

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1924; and by 1930 the neighborhood had its ownnewspaper, The Broadmoor News. About the sametime one of the city’s earliest neighborhood associa-tions, the Broadmoor Civic Improvement Association,was formed. By the 1940s, at least 50 percent of thehomes in the area were owner-occupied. Today thedistrict is comprised of approximately 770 buildings,predominantly multi-storied Spanish Colonial andMediterranean Revival homes, Bungalow style base-ment houses, low-slung double shotgun houses andClassical mansions. While the official NationalRegister district is roughly bound by Octavia andMilan streets and South Claiborne to slightly beyondFontainebleau, residents consider Broadmoor to be alarger area extending up to South Jefferson DavisParkway and past Milan to Washington Avenue.

The opening of Chevra Thilim Synagogue on thecorner of South Claiborne and Jena Street in 1948attracted a large Jewish population to the area.Throughout the 1950s and ‘60s, over 30 percent ofthe students at the neighborhood’s public grammarschool, Andrew H. Wilson, were Jewish. In addition,the Communal Hebrew School, located across thestreet from Wilson, educated thousands of Jewishchildren during these years. The synagogue closed inthe late 1990s and is now occupied by a Baptistcongregation which offers many programs and serv-ices to the neighborhood.

The Rosa Keller branch of the New OrleansPublic Library is one of the most recognizable land-

Broadmoor

examples of houses with motifsand elements ranging from Spanish

to Tudor, from Classical to earlyLouisiana plantation style. Halfwaybetween Fontainebleau andClaiborne, turn right on SouthGalvez. Here you will notice exam-ples of early 20th-centuryAmerican home design, such as theraised Craftsman cottage at 4510South Galvez and the sprawlingbrick Prairie-Style house at 3416Upperline, near the corner ofSouth Galvez and Upperline.Continue on South Galvez toJefferson Avenue.Turn left onJefferson, driving six blocks backto Claiborne Avenue, where oncebeyond the neutral ground youwill leave Broadmoor.continued on reverse side PH

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L I V I N G WITH H I S T O RYIN NEW ORLEANS’ NEIGHBORHOODS

Published byPRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER

OF NEW ORLEANS923 TCHOUPITOULAS STREET

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70130504/581-7032www.prcno.org

1719 Included in land grant obtained by Jean Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, soon after he founded the city of Nouvelle Orleans

1857 Plans drawn up to drain the area1871 First drainage canal dug under

present day Claiborne Avenue1902 Pumping Station # 1 completed1910 New, large capacity screw pumps

designed by Albert Baldwin Woodinstalled at Pumping Station #1

1922 Andrew H. Wilson School opens1925 All of Broadmoor serviced by sewer

and water lines and public utilities and new streetcar lines establishedon S. Claiborne and Napoleon Avenues

1930 Publication of the Broadmoor Newsbegins, coinciding with formation of Broadmoor Civic Improvement Association

1970 Broadmoor Improvement Associationincorporated

1986 New Orleans Historic DistrictLandmarks Commission designates the Hardie-Fattel House a landmark

1999 Southeast Louisiana Flood Drainage Control Project begins four year endeavor to build new undergroundcanals in the area

2003 Broadmoor listed in the National Register of Historic Places

2005 Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans and Broadmoor submerged by floodwaters

2006 Broadmoor Improvement Association and Harvard University develop comprehensive rebuilding plan

PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW ORLEANSINVITES YOU TO EXPLORE THE LOCAL SIDE OF LIFE IN

BROADMOOR, AN ETHNICALLY AND ECONOMICALLY MIXEDNEIGHBORHOOD ON THE REBOUND AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA.

This brochure is made possible by a generous grantfrom the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities

BroadmoorBroadmoor

An architecturally, economically andracially diverse neighborhood, Broadmoor is situatedin the heart of the city. Although largely a 20th-centuryneighborhood, it began to be developed in the early1880s on marshy pasture land, which during heavyrains became a twelve-acre lake and favorite fishingspot for Uptowners.A Bayou St. Johntributary, which ranto the bayou fromwhat is presently St.Charles Avenue,filled the lake. In1873 there wasonly one registeredlandowner, but inthe mid-1870s plansto develop the areawere put intomotion. By 1885drainage canalshad been built tomove water out ofthe district. Now on the National Register of HistoricPlaces, Pumping Station #1 at South Broad andMelpomene streets was completed in 1902 (just out-side of the neighborhood’s boundaries.)

By the end of the first decade of the 20th centu-ry a small population resided in the area, and theSouth Claiborne Avenue and Napoleon Avenuestreetcar lines served the residents. The largest per-centage of construction occurred between 1920 and

Since 1974 the Preservation Resource Centerhas promoted the preservation, restorationand revitalization of New Orleans’ historic

neighborhoods and architecture.

marks in the district. Named after the noted civilrights and women’s rights activist, the tile-roofed, stuc-co, Arts and Crafts villa was built in 1918 and desig-nated a historic landmark under the name Hardie-Fattel House in 1986. It served as a residence until1990 when it was acquired by the city.

Broadmoor can claim one of the most unified neigh-borhood associations in the city, the BroadmoorImprovement Association. This descendent of theBroadmoor Civic Improvement Association was incor-porated in 1970, and its members are fiercely loyal topreserving the neighborhood’s historic atmosphere andarchitectural significance. The association’s role inrebuilding Broadmoor – badly flooded in the aftermathof Hurricane Katrina -- is exemplary. When plannerssuggested the neighborhood should return to greenspace, residents rallied. The association, with the assis-tance of Harvard College, completed a rebuilding planin record time. Racially mixed and containing stretchesof wealth as well as poverty, Broadmoor has one ofthe highest rates of return in the flooded parts of thecity. The neighborhood association (broadmoorim-provement.com) includes representatives from surround-ing areas, and an extension of the National Registerboundaries is under consideration.

by Celeste Berteau-Stover

PHO

TO:M

ARY

FIT

ZPAT

RICK

Broadmoor 8-30 1/24/08 1:52 PM Page 2

We encourage you to use good judgment andcommon sense in taking this tour.

Drive/Bike/Walk: From westbound Claiborne Avenueturn right onto Octavia Street.The homes here are repre-sentative of the architecture found throughoutBroadmoor fromvarious historicrevival styles toraised bungalows.Indeed, 41 percentof the homes inBroadmoor arebungalows.Theearliest homeswere raised, withfull story above-ground basementsand living quarterson the secondfloor. Octavia Street has a concentration of 1920s-1940stwo story brick or stucco Colonial Revival houses. Asyou approach Napoleon Avenue, notice the homes on thesouth side of the 4100 block of Fontainebleau. Of particu-lar interest is the Arts and Crafts villa at 4100Fontainebleau.This stucco house dates from 1918 andfeatures elaborate timberwork, diamond-paned casementwindows and an ornate tile roof.

Here, at the intersection of Fontainebleau Drive and

Napoleon Avenue, you are at whatis considered to be the heart ofBroadmoor.You may want to parkand cross Fontainebleau on foot totake a closer look at the Gloria DeiLutheran Church at the corner ofSouth Dupre and Fontainebleau.Built in 1952, this brick and cast-stone basilica features single-centerlancet openings and buttresses thatthrust above the roof.The front-fac-ing gable contains a stained-glassrose window, and the bell towerextends skyward through the limbsof the surrounding live oaks.Directly across from Gloria Dei, ona grassy island where NapoleonAvenue becomes Broad Street, isthe Broadmoor Playspot, a lovinglytended park enjoyed by the neigh-borhood children.

Cross Napoleon Avenue onfoot to visit the Rosa Keller Branchof the New Orleans Public Library.Formerly known as the Hardie-Fattel House, this landmark is onthe National Register. Return tothe west side of Napoleon andnote the two-story residence at3852 Napoleon.This stucco home,built in 1910, features prominentarches on impost blocks and isreminiscent of the Art Nouveaustyle of design. Next door at 3818-20 is a large, double house, resem-bling an Italian palazzo, that fea-tures an elegant arcade on the firstfloor and a dramatic columnar log-gia on the second floor.The tileroof of this rough stucco structurecontinues into prominent over-hangs.

Continue driving, riding, orwalking on Napoleon towardClaiborne Avenue, taking note ofthe extraordinary array of homes,the majority built in the 1930s. Oneither side of this wide avenue are

TOUR

1924; and by 1930 the neighborhood had its ownnewspaper, The Broadmoor News. About the sametime one of the city’s earliest neighborhood associa-tions, the Broadmoor Civic Improvement Association,was formed. By the 1940s, at least 50 percent of thehomes in the area were owner-occupied. Today thedistrict is comprised of approximately 770 buildings,predominantly multi-storied Spanish Colonial andMediterranean Revival homes, Bungalow style base-ment houses, low-slung double shotgun houses andClassical mansions. While the official NationalRegister district is roughly bound by Octavia andMilan streets and South Claiborne to slightly beyondFontainebleau, residents consider Broadmoor to be alarger area extending up to South Jefferson DavisParkway and past Milan to Washington Avenue.

The opening of Chevra Thilim Synagogue on thecorner of South Claiborne and Jena Street in 1948attracted a large Jewish population to the area.Throughout the 1950s and ‘60s, over 30 percent ofthe students at the neighborhood’s public grammarschool, Andrew H. Wilson, were Jewish. In addition,the Communal Hebrew School, located across thestreet from Wilson, educated thousands of Jewishchildren during these years. The synagogue closed inthe late 1990s and is now occupied by a Baptistcongregation which offers many programs and serv-ices to the neighborhood.

The Rosa Keller branch of the New OrleansPublic Library is one of the most recognizable land-

Broadmoor

examples of houses with motifsand elements ranging from Spanish

to Tudor, from Classical to earlyLouisiana plantation style. Halfwaybetween Fontainebleau andClaiborne, turn right on SouthGalvez. Here you will notice exam-ples of early 20th-centuryAmerican home design, such as theraised Craftsman cottage at 4510South Galvez and the sprawlingbrick Prairie-Style house at 3416Upperline, near the corner ofSouth Galvez and Upperline.Continue on South Galvez toJefferson Avenue.Turn left onJefferson, driving six blocks backto Claiborne Avenue, where oncebeyond the neutral ground youwill leave Broadmoor.continued on reverse side PH

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Boundaries roughly drawn.Actual district zigzags oneast and west edges and

extends slightly north.

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L I V I N G WITH H I S T O RYIN NEW ORLEANS’ NEIGHBORHOODS

Published byPRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER

OF NEW ORLEANS923 TCHOUPITOULAS STREET

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70130504/581-7032www.prcno.org

1719 Included in land grant obtained by Jean Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, soon after he founded the city of Nouvelle Orleans

1857 Plans drawn up to drain the area1871 First drainage canal dug under

present day Claiborne Avenue1902 Pumping Station # 1 completed1910 New, large capacity screw pumps

designed by Albert Baldwin Woodinstalled at Pumping Station #1

1922 Andrew H. Wilson School opens1925 All of Broadmoor serviced by sewer

and water lines and public utilities and new streetcar lines establishedon S. Claiborne and Napoleon Avenues

1930 Publication of the Broadmoor Newsbegins, coinciding with formation of Broadmoor Civic Improvement Association

1970 Broadmoor Improvement Associationincorporated

1986 New Orleans Historic DistrictLandmarks Commission designates the Hardie-Fattel House a landmark

1999 Southeast Louisiana Flood Drainage Control Project begins four year endeavor to build new undergroundcanals in the area

2003 Broadmoor listed in the National Register of Historic Places

2005 Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans and Broadmoor submerged by floodwaters

2006 Broadmoor Improvement Association and Harvard University develop comprehensive rebuilding plan

PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW ORLEANSINVITES YOU TO EXPLORE THE LOCAL SIDE OF LIFE IN

BROADMOOR, AN ETHNICALLY AND ECONOMICALLY MIXEDNEIGHBORHOOD ON THE REBOUND AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA.

This brochure is made possible by a generous grantfrom the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities

BroadmoorBroadmoor

An architecturally, economically andracially diverse neighborhood, Broadmoor is situatedin the heart of the city. Although largely a 20th-centuryneighborhood, it began to be developed in the early1880s on marshy pasture land, which during heavyrains became a twelve-acre lake and favorite fishingspot for Uptowners.A Bayou St. Johntributary, which ranto the bayou fromwhat is presently St.Charles Avenue,filled the lake. In1873 there wasonly one registeredlandowner, but inthe mid-1870s plansto develop the areawere put intomotion. By 1885drainage canalshad been built tomove water out ofthe district. Now on the National Register of HistoricPlaces, Pumping Station #1 at South Broad andMelpomene streets was completed in 1902 (just out-side of the neighborhood’s boundaries.)

By the end of the first decade of the 20th centu-ry a small population resided in the area, and theSouth Claiborne Avenue and Napoleon Avenuestreetcar lines served the residents. The largest per-centage of construction occurred between 1920 and

Since 1974 the Preservation Resource Centerhas promoted the preservation, restorationand revitalization of New Orleans’ historic

neighborhoods and architecture.

marks in the district. Named after the noted civilrights and women’s rights activist, the tile-roofed, stuc-co, Arts and Crafts villa was built in 1918 and desig-nated a historic landmark under the name Hardie-Fattel House in 1986. It served as a residence until1990 when it was acquired by the city.

Broadmoor can claim one of the most unified neigh-borhood associations in the city, the BroadmoorImprovement Association. This descendent of theBroadmoor Civic Improvement Association was incor-porated in 1970, and its members are fiercely loyal topreserving the neighborhood’s historic atmosphere andarchitectural significance. The association’s role inrebuilding Broadmoor – badly flooded in the aftermathof Hurricane Katrina -- is exemplary. When plannerssuggested the neighborhood should return to greenspace, residents rallied. The association, with the assis-tance of Harvard College, completed a rebuilding planin record time. Racially mixed and containing stretchesof wealth as well as poverty, Broadmoor has one ofthe highest rates of return in the flooded parts of thecity. The neighborhood association (broadmoorim-provement.com) includes representatives from surround-ing areas, and an extension of the National Registerboundaries is under consideration.

by Celeste Berteau-Stover

PHO

TO:M

ARY

FIT

ZPAT

RICK

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