Historic renovations demand time, patience, organization and a keen eye for detail, even for the smallest projects. Moving a ramshackle historic house to a different location and then renovating it, ...

Founded in 1718, the French Quarter is one of New Orleans’ oldest neighborhoods. And behind many of the 200 or even 300-year-old buildings – amidst the multi-story structures, cast-iron balconies, ...

When Walter “Chip” Flower passed away last September, one of his last wishes was that he and his wife Ella’s Barrelli-Chapman, 1855 Louisiana Creole plantation style home, nestled on five acres in Old ...

The architecture of New Orleans is as much a potpourri as the European settlers who claimed it – the Spanish, the French, the English-heritage Americans. But some of the city’s loveliest and most ...

The Edmundsons live on St. Philip Street in a quiet section of the French Quarter. Their home is an 1830s Creole cottage with a two-story accessory building in the rear, separated from the main house ...

Many of the city’s first freestanding wooden homes perished in the fires of 1788 and 1794. The Creole and American influenced townhouses that were built in their place remain the dominant building ...

When chef Nina Compton was growing up in St. Lucia, she lived for leisurely beach days with her family. “We lived close to the beach, and we could see Pigeon Island from our house,” she says.