Garden District
Antebellum garden neighborhood of columned mansions behind cast-iron fences cast from nineteenth-century foundry molds.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Garden District in New Orleans starts at the cornstalk fence outside Colonel Short's Villa and the story every tour guide repeats about a homesick wife from Iowa. It follows that story back to a different house entirely, an 1856 commission on Royal Street for a doctor named Joseph Secondo Biamenti, and to the Philadelphia foundry that realized what it had built could be sold again and again. You will hear what the base plate near this very gate actually says.
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