Color New Orleans Sampler by Color Our Town Press

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24 Places to Visit and Color

Jake Rose

Illustrations by Various Artists

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French Quarter

Bourbon Street

New Orleans Museum of Art

National WWII Museum

Steamboat Natchez

Café du Monde

Fairgrounds Race Course and Slots

Audubon Zoo

St Charles Avenue Streetcar

Audubon Aquarium of the Americas

Antoine's

Louisiana Children's Museum

Caesars Superdome

Tulane University

Mardi Gras

St. Louis Cathedral

Royal Street Townhouses

St. Louis Cemetery

Storyland

Preservation Hall

Touro Synagogue

Presbytére

Saenger Theater

Spotted Cat Music Hall

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1. French Quarter One of the city’s most historic neighborhoods, the French Quarter is considered to be the Crown Jewel of New Orleans. Its timeless landscape is represented by artists, writers, and performers living side-by-side with businessmen, street urchins, restaurateurs, and descendants of French aristocrats. The area's architecture has an eclectic mix of Greek Revival and Creole edifices that include cast-iron balconies, courtyards with fountains, and grand arches. One of the most desirable districts in NOLA, the French Quarter fuses the macabre and the beauty–where the voodoo of fortunetellers on Jackson Square meet the butter-crème-colored walls of St. Louis Cathedral, reflected by the magic of its fiery sunset.

Photo by Diego Delso

2. Bourbon Street It is said that Bourbon Street never sleeps! For many of its visitors, it is a place to go to enjoy the high-spirited nightlife so synonymous with bright neon lights, pulsating music, and beads and balconies galore. Named after French ruler Rue Bourbon and designed by Adrien de Pauger in 1721, this monumental street is the heart and soul of the French Quarter. While New Orleans is forever evolving, the color and excitement of Bourbon Street never disappoints.

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4. St. Louis Cathedral The United States’ oldest Catholic cathedral in continual use, the St. Louis Cathedral is both one of New Orleans' most notable landmarks and the heart of old New Orleans. Designed by Adrien De Pauger and LeBlond de la Tou in 1721, the first church on this site was completed in 1727 as a dedication to King Louis IX. The second and current Church of St. Louis was completed in 1794 and was soon dedicated as a cathedral. Visited by both Presidents Andrew Jackson and Zachary Taylor as well as Popes Paul VI and John Paul II, the Cathedral is best known for its towering triple steeples.

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5. Royal Street Home to a myriad of esteemed family-owned antique shops and prestigious art galleries, Royal Street is alive with historic opulent treasures. Considered by residents and tourists alike as the French Quarter’s most attractive thoroughfare, one can dine in its secret courtyard restaurants and listen to the music of undiscovered talented street performers. During the 1700’s, Rue Royal served as New Orleans’ financial center and most fashionable avenue.

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´ 6. Presbytere Designed in 1791 to match the Cabildo, the Presbytère stands today as a beautiful reminder of both Louisiana’s singular past and its vibrant present. The Presbytère, originally called Casa Curial or “Ecclesiastical House,” was built on the site of the residence, or presbytère, of the Capuchin monks. The building was used for commercial purposes until 1834 when it became a courthouse. In 1911, it became part of the Louisiana State Museum.

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7. Audubon Aquarium of the Americas Located on the Mississippi River adjacent to the French Quarter, the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas is consistently top ranked, voted as one of the top five in the country in the USA Today "10Best" reader poll and ranked as one of the top things to do in New Orleans. The Aquarium transports visitors to an underwater world from the Caribbean, to the Amazon Rainforest, to the waters that give New Orleans its lifeblood: the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. With over 3,600 animals from over 250 species, including endangered species, African penguins, and white alligators, the Aquarium offers you an experience you'll never forget.

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8. New Orleans Museum of Art Designed in 1910 by Samuel Marx, the New Orleans Museum of Art opened in 1911 as the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art with only nine works of art. The city’s oldest fine arts institution, the museum now hosts an impressive permanent collection of more than 40,000 objects. The collection, noted for its exceptional strengths in French and American art, photography, glass, and African and Japanese works, continues to expand and grow, making NOMA one of the South’s top art museums. The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at NOMA is one of the United States’ most important sculpture parks, with more than 90 sculptures situated on a beautifully landscaped site among footpaths, lagoons, Spanish live oaks, pines, magnolias, camellias, and pedestrian bridges.

Photo by Bernard Spragg

10. Steamboat Natchez When the New Orleans Steamboat Company launched the Natchez in 1975, they revived more than a famous name. They created one of only two true steam-powered sternwheelers plying the Mississippi today. The Natchez combines the best of contemporary construction, safety, and comfort standards with all the authenticity and style of her classic steamboat gothic predecessors. Resembling the sternwheelers Virginia and Hudson in her profile and layout, the Natchez is the pride of the Mississippi River and is as beautiful as any of her namesakes. Many of her crew have been with her since her maiden voyage. True to tradition in every detail, boarding the Natchez makes you feel as if you have entered another era. As the Natchez glides past the French Quarter and through one of the world's most active ports, you begin to understand the magic of the experience. For all its history and romance, the excitement of riding a steamboat is as real and rich and genuine now as it was a century ago.

Photo by Khairil Azhar Jones

11. Cafe´ Du Monde Established in 1862 in the New Orleans French Market, the Original Café Du Monde Coffee Stand is a traditional coffee shop best known for its savory beignets – square French-style doughnuts that are lavishly covered with powdered sugar. Owned by the Fernandez family since 1942, the Café Du Monde Coffee Stand is an excellent place to meet friends, listen to eccentric jazz bands, or just get a nice cup of coffee.

Photo by Diego Delso

14. St. Charles Avenue Streetcar Rumbling down the middle of St. Charles and Carrollton avenues for over 150 years, the St. Charles Streetcar has become a symbol of New Orleans’ charm and romance. The dark green St. Charles streetcar is the world’s oldest continuously operating streetcar line. Vintage streetcars built by Perley Thomas Company still run along a 6-mile crescent from Carondelet at Canal Street in the Central Business District through Uptown New Orleans’ oldest and most majestic section, around the Riverbend to Carrollton at Claiborne Avenue. Swaying along St. Charles Avenue through a tunnel of Live Oaks, the streetcar passes dozens of antebellum mansions, Loyola and Tulane universities, Audubon Park, and hotels, restaurants, and bars.

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18. Saenger Theatre Designed by Emile Weil, the Saenger Theatre was built by Julian Saenger in 1927 for $2.5 million dollars. The interior atmospheric design creates a magnificent 15th century Italian courtyard and gardens, with arched surroundings, columns and decorative moldings. The suspension of disbelief is completed by a blue domed “sky” ceiling complete with twinkling stars. Greek and Roman statuary line the walls and statues of Venus stand on pedestals along the auditorium’s upper rim. Reopened in 2013, the Saenger Theatre restoration served to authentically renovate this historic 1927 movie palace, and transform it into a first class state-of-the-art performing arts theatre. The restored Saenger Theatre features beautifully refurbished lobbies and auditorium seating area with carpeting and lighting fixtures recreated from the originals. The expanded theatre stage house will be equipped with state-of-the-art theatrical systems ensuring the Saenger will be the South’s most technically advanced theatre.

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22. Preservation Hall Situated in the heart of the French Quarter, Preservation Hall presents intimate, acoustic New Orleans Jazz concerts over 350 nights a year featuring ensembles from a current collective of over 50 local master practitioners. On any given night, audiences bear witness to the evolution of this living tradition. Preservation Hall dates back to the 1950s at the Associated Artists art gallery. Upon opening the gallery, Larry Borenstein found that it curtailed his ability to attend the few remaining local jazz concerts, and began inviting noted musicians to perform rehearsals in the gallery. Thus, Preservation Hall was born–a rare space in the South where racially-integrated bands and audiences shared music together during the Jim Crow era. At the center of that family business, the Jaffe’s became involved in the southern Civil Rights Movement as heads of an integrated venue in a time of racial segregation. Following Allan Jaffe’s death in 1987, Preservation Hall and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band operate under the leadership of Jaffe’s second son, Benjamin.

Color New Orleans is filled to the brim with the city's most iconic settings, like the Superdome, the French Quarter, and the Steamboat Natchez, among many others.

Through its 24 beautifully detailed line drawings and in-depth descriptions, “Color New Orleans” masterfully highlights what makes the Big Easy so special to its residents and visitors. ISBN 9781948286282