My New Orleans
04/20/2021
NEW ORLEANS (press release) – The Garden District Book Shop is pleased to announce an evening celebrating local author and architect, Robert J. Cangelosi Jr., and his new addition to the New Orleans Architecture series,“New Orleans Architecture: Volume IX: Carrollton”, on May 1 at The Hyacinth House at 923 S Carrollton Ave. The evening will feature a book discussion and signing that will occur outdoors and socially distanced.
Cangelosi is president and partner at local Koch and Wilson Architects as well as an esteemed expert on New Orleans architecture. His latest work is the essential reference guide to one of New Orleans’s most iconic Uptown neighborhoods, “New Orleans Architecture: Volume IX”, and documents the remarkable architectural history of the former city of Carrollton, once the seat of Jefferson Parish and now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Cangelosi’s work serves as a valuable resource for the city’s Histor
Browsers stay masked and socially distant at Octavia Books in October.
Independent booksellers ordinarily rely on foot traffic and in-person browsing for their sales. That all changed in March of last year. Two Uptown bookstores, however, have found ways to adapt and even thrive through the pandemic.
Garden District Book Shop, in a historic building that once housed a roller rink on oak-canopied Prytania Street, and Octavia Books, set back on a diagonal on its quiet eponymous street near the river, have both continued to sell books to residents across the city.
By altering their in-store browsing, as well as shipping and delivering tomes directly to the homes of their devoted clientele, the booksellers have shown tenacity in a time of chaos and uncertainty.