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Cityscapes: What Does 'Creole' Mean In New Orleans Architecture?

The Pitot House on Bayou St. John is an example of New Orleans' original Creole architecture.
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The Pitot House on Bayou St. John is an example of New Orleans' original Creole architecture.

Every month Richard Campanella talks to WWNO about his Cityscapes column for NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune.

The author and Professor of Geography at the Tulane School of Architecture this month begins a series of columns on specific styles of New Orleans architecture. When talking about the term “Creole” in architecture, Campanella notes two distinct generations of New Orleans buildings: what he calls a "country Creole" style that dominated the French Quarter when the city was founded, and a "city Creole" style that replaced it as two fires burned much of  the Quarter and the city itself moved toward more urban density.