On The Market: New Orleans, Louisiana
March 1, 2005
In the mid-19th century, while upper-class Creoles held court in their
understated French Quarter homes, parvenu Americans who had arrived following
the Louisiana Purchase built extravagant mansions in the suburban Garden
District. Today the well-preserved houses lining its avenues rest amid
brick-paved sidewalks, wrought iron fences, leafy trees and the abundant gardens
for which the neighborhood is named. The writer Anne Rice famously lives in the
Garden District, and the supernatural events of her novels seem quite plausible
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Another well-known resident is musician
Trent Reznor, whose house is currently for sale. (If you aren’t familiar with
his rock band Nine Inch Nails—often abbreviated NIN on T-shirts—your children
certainly are.) Reznor’s fans might be surprised to learn that the man behind
groundbreaking albums such as Pretty Hate Machine and The Downward Spiral lives
in such genteel antebellum fashion. The 5,000-square-foot, four-bedroom house
has a floor plan typical of the mid-1800s, with a broad entry hall opening to
high-ceilinged reception rooms with plenty of original ambience. Open-air,
two-story galleries wrap around much of the exterior, and there is a swimming
pool at the rear of the property. (Click image to enlarge)
Market Inquiries
$1.975 million. Dorian M. Bennett, 504.944.3605, www.noro.com; Sotheby’s International Realty, www.sothebysrealty.com
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