Garden District New Orleans, Louisiana

This cottage at 2524 St. Charles Avenue was built in 1857 for Sophronie Louise Claiborne, daughter of Louisiana's first governor. Her Creole husband, de Marigny, was President of the Louisiana Senate.

Also known as the Gilmour-Christovich House, this pink residence with a cast-iron gallery was built for Thomas Corse Gilmour in 1853.

Formerly known as the Chico Club, this brick building in the Basque Block was constructed around 1915 as an apartment building. Since 2005 it has been a fine-dining Basque restaurant called Leku Ona.

Formerly known as the “Chinese Houseboat,” this two-story brick building in the Basque Block was constructed around 1900 as a boardinghouse.

As its nickname indicates, the Garden District mansion at 1448 Fourth is best known for an impressive cast-iron fence shaped like cornstalks, ears of corn, and other plants.

The Morris-Israel House was designed by Samuel Jamison and built in 1860 in the Italianate style. It features a pale pink exterior with delicate cast-iron galleries.

Distinguished by its massive Doric columns extending two stories high, the Pritchard-Pigott House is a Greek Revival mansion built in 1866.