New Orleans Architecture: The Esplanade Ridge

by Mary Louise Christovich, Sally Evans, Roulhac Toledano, Betsy Swanson

Overview

The fifth volume focuses attention on Esplanade, the broad, tree-lined avenue that stretches from the Mississippi River to Bayou St. John.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781565540729
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	02/28/1995
Series:	New Orleans Architecture , #5
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 11.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

An award-winning author of more than a dozen books, Roulhac B. Toledano is a prominent lecturer and an authority on historical architecture. She is the recipient of the American Institute of Architects International Book Award and works as an artist, writer, and preserver of historic American treasures.


Betsy Swanson earned a bachelor of fine arts degree with distinction in art from Newcomb College in 1959 and was awarded the master of fine arts by Tulane University in 1966. She is a coauthor of New Orleans Architecture Volume II: The American Sector (pb) and a photographer for New Orleans Architecture Volume VI: Faubourg TremÈ and the Bayou Road (pb). Ms. Swanson lives in Harahan, Louisiana.