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Pontalba Buildings
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| Location: | 500 St. Ann St. and 500 St. Peter St., New Orleans, Louisiana |
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| Built: | 1849 |
| Architect: | James Gallier; Henry Howard |
| Architectural style: | Other |
| Governing body: | State |
| NRHP Reference#: | 74000934 |
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| Added to NRHP: | May 30, 1974[1] |
| Designated NHL: | May 30, 1974[2] |
The Pontalba Buildings form two sides of Jackson Square in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.
These are matching red-brick block long 4‑story buildings built in the 1840s by the Baroness Micaela Almonester Pontalba. The ground floors house shops and restaurants; the upper floors are apartments that are the oldest continuously rented such apartments in the United States.
In the short story Hidden Gardens, Truman Capote describes the Pontalba Buildings as "...the oldest, in some ways most somberly elegant, apartment houses in America, the Pontalba Buildings."
They were declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974.[2][3]
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