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ON VIEW
Growing Up Together
EXHIBITION
An Architect and His City: Henry Howard’s New Orleans, 1837-1884
November 18, 2015—April 3, 2016
Williams Gallery, 533 Royal Street
Free
NEW FROM THNOC
Henry Howard: Louisiana’s Architect
by Robert S. Brantley with Victor McGee; photographs by Robert S. Brantley and Jan White Brantley
The Historic New Orleans Collection and Princeton Architectural Press, 2015
$60, hardcover, 8.9 x 12 inches, 352 pages, 330 color images
ISBN: 978-1-61689-278-4
Now available at The Shop at The Collection, www.hnoc.org/shop, and local booksellers
One of the 19th century’s most prolific architects, Henrv Hoy . of iconic buildings such as the Pontalba buildings flanking Ja-.-tions Madewood and Nottoway—called New Orleans home for -this time, the Irish native established his career, left an indelibw Louisiana, and witnessed the growth of one of America’s great-: Orleans Collection will examine New Orleans as experienced ‘" exhibition An Architect and His City: Henry Howard’s New Ot . opens November 18 at THNOC’s Williams Gallery.
When Howard arrived in New Orleans in 1837, the citv was ‘ . and facing an economic crisis and a yellow fever epidemic. Ovcr from the boom of the antebellum years through the upheaval or Reconstruction, Howard’s fortunes paralleled those of his city.
“Howard’s career coincided with a period of great change for f -	'
design profession in which he worked,” explained John H. Lawrr--programs. “You have the consolidation of New Orleans’s varioui in 1852. From 1836 until 1852, there was a single mayor but thrt*. for each municipality. After consolidation, there was only one cou-
The city also grew, with the upriver annexations of the City of L_ Carrollton, and across the river to Algiers. With such an increase in plenty of opportunities for builders and designers. One section of th, display tools of Howard's trade, such as building manuals and des^ one of the first professionals to operate solely in the arena of design. • as contractor as well as architect. As Lawrence explained, at that tir-architect as we understand it today was only just coming into being
4 The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly