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Algiers Point, New Orleans, LA.
The historic district of Algiers Point on the west bank of the Mississippi River embody the urban, industrial, and semi-rural development that took place on the outskirts of New Orleans in the nineteenth century. Algiers Point, named for its location in the bend of the river directly across from the Vieux Carré, began as a land grant to Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville in 1719 and served in its early days as a holding place for newly arrived slaves. The community soon evolved to include a robust shipbuilding industry, saw mills and lumber yards, a slaughterhouse, citrus groves, and truck farms. In 1870, Orleans Parish annexed Algiers, which for thirty years had operated as an independent municipality. Although several of its historic buildings were destroyed by fire in 1895, Algiers Point still boasts a number of notable examples of mid- and late-nineteenth-century residences. Now a vibrant mixed-use neighborhood, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and became a locally regulated historic district in 1993.
Algiers Point, New Orleans, LA.
The historic district of Algiers Point on the west bank of the Mississippi River embody the urban, industrial, and semi-rural development that took place on the outskirts of New Orleans in the nineteenth century. Algiers Point, named for its location in the bend of the river directly across from the Vieux Carré, began as a land grant to Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville in 1719 and served in its early days as a holding place for newly arrived slaves. The community soon evolved to include a robust shipbuilding industry, saw mills and lumber yards, a slaughterhouse, citrus groves, and truck farms. In 1870, Orleans Parish annexed Algiers, which for thirty years had operated as an independent municipality. Although several of its historic buildings were destroyed by fire in 1895, Algiers Point still boasts a number of notable examples of mid- and late-nineteenth-century residences. Now a vibrant mixed-use neighborhood, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and became a locally regulated historic district in 1993.