Uptown and the Americanization of New Orleans

Abstract

The Garden District was laid out in the 1830s and settled in the 1840s, approximately 120 years after New Orleans was founded but only three decades after Louisiana came under American rule. American society was thus a late transplant to Bienville’s city of La Nouvelle Orleans. Yet the new Anglo-Saxon colony had already passed through three distinct but overlapping phases of development by the time the Garden District was established.