Article: The Galliers, New Orleans architects.

The Irish comedian Tyrone Power (1797-1841), who arrived in New Orleans in early January 1835, wrote that from the day he landed in America he had heard the city lauded for "its rapid increase, its singular position, and motley population, together with the speculation founded on the promise of its future greatness."(1) It was during the 1830s that four exceptionally talented architects came to "this capital of many waters,"(2) attracted by the opportunities for extravagant architecture engendered by what Power called "wealth which...is on all hands accumulating with a rapidity almost partaking of the marvellous."(3)

Late in 1834, a month or so before Power made his ...

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