Creole Houses: Traditional Homes of Old Louisiana [Hardcover]

Steve Gross (Author), Sue Daley (Author)

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Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams (April 1 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0810954958
ISBN-13: 978-0810954953
Product Dimensions: 24 x 27.2 x 2.4 cm
Shipping Weight: 1.2 Kg
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #415,610 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #88 in Books > Arts & Photography > Architecture > Historic Preservation
- #89 in Books > Professional & Technical > Architecture > Historic Preservation

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Creole houses, found from New Orleans to northern Louisiana, are one of the nation’s unique architectural treasures. A blend of French and Spanish colonial styles, with West Indian, Canadian, and other influences, these lovely houses were astutely designed to withstand their sultry, subtropical environment. Significantly, most major examples withstood the devastating hurricanes of 2005.

No other book of photography evocatively examines the development of this singular American style, embracing architecture and interior decoration, which thrived from the early eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth century. Creole Houses offers an appreciation of Creole culture as seen through its historic homes and celebrates not only a memorable way of life, but the history, and the unique sensibility, that produced it.

About the Author

James Conaway is author of the novel The Big Easy and many nonfiction works, including the memoir Memphis Afternoons and The Far Side of Eden, about environmental conflict in the Napa Valley. He divides his time between Washington, D.C., and piedmont Virginia.

John H. Lawrence is director of museum programs for the Historic New Orleans Collection. He lives in New Orleans.

Steve Gross and Sue Daley are photographers whose books include Santa Fe: Houses and Gardens, Catskills Country Style, Old Houses, and Old Greenwich

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Amazon.com: 4.7 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews)

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great book from Steve Gross & Susan Daley, May 2 2007

By CS Pond - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Creole Houses: Traditional Homes of Old Louisiana (Hardcover)

This book brings important attention to the existence of these historic Creole homes in a part of the country that has been shattered by natural events in recent years. Fortunately, these homes are survivors: of their glorious past, of the ravages of weather, economy and time. The photographic vision of Gross and Daley is a brilliant dedication to documenting places as they are and not how we might want them to be. OLD HOUSES, one of their first books, set a precedent for their evocative style of artistry in what they choose to photograph from our architectural and domestic past. They continue to seek the forlorn, the forgotten, the poignant and the unusual. Their latest book, CREOLE HOUSES, is further revelation of their aesthetic message--of how old places and ways can be both beautiful and resonant in our modern, complicated world. CREOLE HOUSES is both record, homage, and a visual and written poem to historic Louisiana architecture.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars CREOLE ARCHITECTURE, Jun 21 2007

By Shannon Deason - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Creole Houses: Traditional Homes of Old Louisiana (Hardcover)

A very nice book on a beautiful architectual style. These houses fit perfectly into the Southern Louisiana landscape, they were built for balmy humid climate of the region. I found the history of the people that built these homes very interesting, the text was imformative and the images nicely produced. If you are interested in this style i highly recomend the book on Hays Town, he was a modern master of the venacular.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Creole Houses, April 19 2007

By Jack Alexander - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Creole Houses: Traditional Homes of Old Louisiana (Hardcover)

I have over the years acquired a couple dozen books on old New Orleans and Low Country architecture, none has captured the true feeling of that fading glory like Creole Houses. Photos are superb, text is authorative, end sheets are a delight, and the binding first rate. This book is a peek inside antebellum Creole country from plantation houses to servant's quarters.

Lets hope these folks do more such volumes. My suggestion would be the 18th century Georgians of the Mid-Atlantic states.

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