Commercial buildings
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
1929 Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, 1910-1929
Series
Scope and Contents
The records are various materials gathered or created by the City Planning and Zoning Commission and/or Harland Bartholomew and Associates in connection with the preparation of New Orleans's first comprehensive zoning ordinance, adopted by the Commission Council on June 6, 1929. Click the image to the right to see photographs submitted with one such report.Included are petitions, correspondence, and photographs submitted by citizens during the CPZC's public hearings on the...
Dates:
1910-1929
Found in:
City Archives
/
City Planning Commission records
City Archives Building Plan collection
Collection
Identifier: CA-Building Plans
Scope and Contents
Click the image to the right to search for building plans. The index lists, by street address, the collection of building plans in the City Archives at the New Orleans Public Library. Most of these plans were transferred to the Archives by the Department of Safety and Permits, but additional plans have come into the Archives from the Vieux Carre Commission, other municipal agencies, Civil Court suit records, and other miscellaneous sources.There was no legal requirement that...
Dates:
1881-2010
Found in:
City Archives
City Planning Commission records, 1923-2012
Series
Scope and Contents
This series contains the builk of the CPC collection, including most of the more recent files created by the City Planning Commission after its merger with the Board of Zoning Adjustments. Meeting minutes, zoning dockets, and ordinances and amendments were produced by the CPC office for the City Council and the public. Subject files and office records were used for internal studies related to zoning and zoning ordinances.
Dates:
1923-2012
Found in:
City Archives
/
City Planning Commission records
Councilmember Joseph V. DiRosa At-Large records
Collection
Identifier: CA-AB-DiRosa
Scope and Contents
The DiRosa records contain subject files from the councilperson's two terms in office. Many of the subject files deal with civic matters, social services, and local organizations. Of particular note are the liquor license revocations that were part of a morality enforcement against gambling, sex work, and same-sex bars. Many of the organizations present in the collection are local social service organizations or political organizations, including anti-community organizations from the...
Dates:
1962-1966; 1970-1978
Found in:
City Archives
Councilmember Kristen Gisleson Palmer District C Records
Collection
Identifier: CA-AB-Palmer
Scope and Contents
The records in the collection span the years 2010-2014 and contain
policy-related archives
transportation concerns of all types
daily calendars
correspondenc
talking points
research and studies for the 2014 Sound Ordinance
There are 12 total boxes of project and policy research, particularly related to transportation, parks, and District C quality of life. This includes reports on development projects in New Orleans,...
Dates:
2010-2014
Found in:
City Archives
French Market Corporation records
Collection
Identifier: CA-KTA
Scope and Contents
The records of the French Market Corporation consist of the following:
Subject files
Correspondence, ordinances, reports, and financial records (including records of Farmers' Market receipts, 1938-1969; cash receipts and disbursements, 1943-1968; and payrolls, 1936-1970). Divided into separate series based on accession date. Arranged alphabetically by folder title. Minutes of the Board of Directors
Official minutes, many signed by the individual directors....
Dates:
1936-1984
Found in:
City Archives
Historic District Landmarks Commission records
Collection
Identifier: CA-ARA
Scope and Contents
The Historic District Landmarks Commission papers include handwritten survey forms, photographs, and slide images of neighborhoods assessed for their historic value and for preservation. Not all neighborhoods include both surveys and photographs/slides. Some include surveys without images, or images without surveys. Uptown, Lower Garden District, and Carrollton will often have both, as will areas of Treme and Esplanade. Neighborhoods included in this collection are:
Canal...
Dates:
1974-2004
Found in:
City Archives
New Orleans Building Corporation Records
Collection
Identifier: CA-AABC
Scope and Contents
Includes meeting minutes, articles of incorporation, and bylaws.
Dates:
2000-2002
Found in:
City Archives
Office of Environmental Affairs records, 1994-2002
Sub-Series
Scope and Contents
The records include subject files, apparently from both the Director and the Deputy Director of the Office. They include materials relating to the application for and administration of grants for environmental concerns; materials relating to City of New Orleans environmental initiatives; and materials relating to other agencies and organizations dealing with environmental matters. Among the areas particularly well represented are matters dealing with Lake Pontchartrain, the Mississippi...
Dates:
Other: 1994-2002
Surveyor's Office records
Collection
Identifier: CA-KG
Scope and Contents
This description includes the pre-1862 records only; descriptions of the remaining records are included in a separate inventory. That inventory, moreover, is prefaced by a good descriptive overview of the nature of the Surveyor's duties and responsibilities during the nineteenth century.Outgoing Correspondence, 1853-1863 (KG510, 2 v.) -- Copies of letters dealing with such matters as drainage; the condition of buildings, machinery, and canals; city property; levee breaks;...
Dates:
1833-1890
Found in:
City Archives
Union Passenger Terminal records
Collection
Identifier: CA-NU
Scope and Contents
The records date mostly from the period of the UPT Committee's control of the terminal building. Included are the official minutes, general ledgers, payroll journals, reports made to the Interstate Commerce Commission, labor agreements, photographs, correspondence/subject files. and various reports and other publications.
Dates:
1948-1996
Found in:
City Archives