Greek Revival - ish

The camelback that once stood at 2411 Palmyra is being restored on N. Rocheblave in its new location across from the Lafitte Redevelopment.  The house next to it, formerly the many-windowed camelback on S. Rocheblave, has its roof back on already.

Neither house appears to be getting a camelback in their new incarnations.

As the cellphone photo above shows, crews began to build up a reproduction of the elaborate and iconic Greek Revival cornice that the house once sported.  I'm not sure why the original isn't being used (or maybe it is going to be slipped over the wooden framing) because I thought it went along inside the house as it was moved.

At any rate, the house was not demolished entirely.  And there's clearly an effort to pay homage to the most distinctive characteristics of the homes.

Gritty

Some of the houses, as you see here with the work from today, get rather roughed up as an incident of the moving preparation.  A number of houses, including the last two shown here, are scheduled to move out of the Footprint tomorrow.

My Favorite Camelback

One of my favorite camelbacks, and one of my favorite overall houses in the VA Footprint began preparation for a move today.  I hope the crews and the architect working on the refurbishment designs for the new site do as much as possible to retain the unique characteristics of the building.

Here's the description from Ms. Sally Reeves:

Classical-revival-style 3-bay camelback with side gallery, front gallery, and elaborated with heavy cornice, paired brackets, modelions, and parapet. Recessed side entry; bayed front.

Greek Revival