The Louisiana Supreme Court Building:  Lessons to be learned from a Beaux-Arts Monstrosity in the French Quarter

by Nora Goddard [Note: this is an abbreviated version of an editorial first published in 2012. The full version containing illustrations, citations and the site’s chain of title is available as an ebook here].           The Louisiana Supreme Court building, a hulking Beaux-Arts marble monument, is an architectural anomaly between Royal and Chartres Streets, in…