Local Lens: Touring the History of New Orleans Architecture with @johnicenola
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If walls could talk, Johnice Katz (@johnicenola) knows that the houses of New Orleans, Louisiana, would have amazing stories to tell. “It’s just obvious that these old houses have something to say,” she says. “Incredible things have happened here and tragic things have happened here. The houses have seen it all.”
As a local real estate agent, Johnice is constantly discovering architectural gems that chronicle New Orleans’s incomparable cultural history. “New Orleans, being the melting pot that it is, just mixed all kinds of types and styles together over the years according to trends and personal preferences,” explains Johnice. “Some of the types include the Creole cottage, the American townhouse, the shotgun, the double gallery house, and the camelback.”
Her favorite locations to photograph architecture are in the Bayou St. John neighborhood, where some of the oldest surviving houses still stand. She also loves the Seventh Ward where “shotgun style” houses predominate. And to find those brightly painted houses, she recommends the Bywater neighborhood. “It’s a fun, funky place to take pictures because people take a lot of pride in their exterior paint colors.”
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