Plan book – Rampart-Customhouse 1853

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A townhouse on Rampart-Customhouse morphed into a vacant lot.. Rampart-Customhouse Plan book Another plan book from A Pattern Book of New Orleans Architecture by Roulhac B. Toledano. Here's her caption: Plan book 62, folio 8, New Orleans Notarial Archives, March 28, 1853. Charles Arthur de Armas, architect  (French Quarter.) Greek Revival townhouse on Rampart between Customhouse (now Iberville) and Canal, backed by Burgundy. Note the plan book says it's of a property in the "Second District." When city government re-organized from the separate "municipalities," those divisions became "districts." By the mid-1800s, the Anglo-Irish "Americans" wrested control from the Creoles. So,...