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Ochsner Baptist Medical Center. Ochsner Health System. The Medical Center seen from Napoleon Avenue in early January 2006. The hospital complex was fenced off with temporary trailers for workers. Geography. Location. New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Coordinates. 29°56′17″N 90°06′16″W / .
Hancock Whitney CenterNew Orleans. / 29.9502; -90.0711. Hancock Whitney Center, formerly One Shell Square, is a 51-story, 697-foot (212 m) skyscraper designed in the International style by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, located at 701 Poydras Street in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the tallest building in both ...
Frenchmen Street is the site of many Creole cottages—a New Orleans design dating to the period between 1790-1850. Creole cottages are single-story, set at ground level, have a steeply pitched roof, symmetrical four-opening façade, and are set close to the front property line. The cottages are usually made of stucco or wood.
NASA. The Michoud Assembly Facility ( MAF) is an 832-acre (1.3 sq mi; 3.4 km 2) manufacturing complex owned by NASA in New Orleans East, a section of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States. Organizationally it is part of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and is currently a multi-tenant complex [ 2 ] to allow commercial and government ...
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 is the oldest and among the most prominent cemeteries in New Orleans. It was opened in 1789, replacing the city's older St. Peter Cemetery ( French: Cimetière St. Peter; no longer in existence) as the main burial ground when the city was redesigned after a fire in 1788. It is 8 blocks from the Mississippi River, on the ...
Notes. 1. Hancock Whitney Center. New Orleans. 697 (212) 51. 1972. Has been the tallest building in New Orleans and Louisiana since 1972; tallest building in the Southeastern United States at the time of its completion; first Southeastern skyscraper to rise higher than 656 feet (200 m); tallest building constructed in the city in the 1970s. 2.
The history of New Orleans, Louisiana traces the city's development from its founding by the French in 1718 through its period of Spanish control, then briefly back to French rule before being acquired by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. During the War of 1812, the last major battle was the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.
The World Trade Center of New Orleans is a non-profit organization of 1,000+ corporate and individual members. [1] This membership base represents a diverse group of industry leaders, companies, professional organizations, and government institutions that include manufacturers, energy, agriculture, maritime, digital media, foreign consulates, and other interests.