Building Antebellum New Orleans : : Free People of Color and Their Influence / / Tara Dudley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Architecture and Design 2021
• VerfasserIn: Dudley, Tara,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (334 p.) :; 94 b&w photos and 22 color photos

2022 PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban Planning 2022 Summerlee Book Prize in Nonfiction, Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast 2022 Best Book Prize, Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians 2022 On the Brinck Book Award, University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning A significant and deeply researched examination of the free nineteenth-century Black developers who transformed the cultural and architectural legacy of New Orleans. The Creole architecture of New Orleans is one of the city’s most-recognized features, but studies of it largely have focused on architectural typology. In Building Antebellum New Orleans, Tara A. Dudley examines the architectural activities and influence of gens de couleur libres—free people of color—in a city where the mixed-race descendants of whites and other free Blacks could own property. Between 1820 and 1850 New Orleans became an urban metropolis and industrialized shipping center with a growing population. Amidst dramatic economic and cultural change in the mid-antebellum period, the gens de couleur libres thrived as property owners, developers, building artisans, and patrons. Dudley writes an intimate microhistory of two prominent families of Black developers, the Dollioles and Souliés, to explore how gens de couleur libres used ownership, engagement, and entrepreneurship to construct individual and group identity and stability. With deep archival research, Dudley re-creates in fine detail the material culture, business and social history, and politics of the built environment for free people of color and adds new, revelatory information to the canon on New Orleans architecture.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- FIGURES -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I OWNERSHIP Possessing the Built Environment -- Chapter 1 THE GENS DE COULEUR LIBRES’ ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY -- Chapter 2 THE RAMIFICATIONS OF USE AND LOCATION -- Part II ENGAGEMENT Forming and Transforming the Built Environment -- Chapter 3 THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE DOLLIOLE AND SOULIÉ FAMILIES -- Chapter 4 “UNCOMMON INDUSTRY” Gens de Couleur Libres Builders in Antebellum New Orleans -- Chapter 5 “RAISED TO THE TRADE” Building Practices of Gens de Couleur Libres Builders in Antebellum New Orleans -- Chapter 6 THE STATUS QUO French, Creole, and Anglo Builders and Architects in Antebellum New Orleans -- Part III ENTREPRENEURSHIP Controlling the Built Environment -- Chapter 7 MONEY, POWER, AND STATUS IN THE BUILDING TRADES -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX