City of Iron Lace: Vintage Images
Back to   Old New Orleans

The Past Whispers - Home


The 3 photos below show wrought iron work surrounding tombs, 1930's.
"To the stranger for the first time threading his way through its narrow streets, the old
French Quarter of New Orleans seems like a city of iron lace, so lavishly did the old Creole
builders make use of the wrought metal."   -- 
New Orleans, City of Iron Lace by Harriet Joor, 1906
The gates of the Cabildo.
The link to this page is:  http://old-new-orleans.com/NO_balcony.html
Photo ca. 1930's
Gate at Court of Two Sisters, photo by
C. Bennette Moore, between 1910 - 1939
Photo by C. Bennette Moore,
taken between 1910 - 1939