Article: Out of bricks and mortar, a New Orleans tale emerges

NEW ORLEANS -- There are long waiting lists for apartments in the Pontalba buildings, two red-brick symbols of antebellum grandeur that face each other across Jackson Square in the French Quarter. And since the city of New Orleans controls the "Upper Pontalba" and the state owns the "Lower" there have long been suspicions that politics helps pick the tenants.

Framing a daily scene of street artists, musicians, tarot seers, magicians, and mimes, the buildings seem steeped in prestige and romance, yet few people knew the strange history behind the properties until the recent publication of the book "Intimate Enemies," an account of an arranged marriage in the 19th century, a bloody family ...

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