Audubon Park, bordered by the Mississippi River and St. Charles Avenue, was carved out of the plantations owned by the Foucher and Boré familes in 1871, and initially called Upper City Park. The park is named in honor of artist and naturalist John James Audubon, who began living in New Orleans in 1821. Inside the park, there is a golf course, several lakes, and the 58-acre Audubon Zoo.
In 1884 the World's Industrial and Cotton Exposition, or World Cotton Centennial, celebrating the first shipment of cotton, was held in Audubon Park. The first street car was introduced at the expo, led by motorman/tea baron Thomas Lipton. The Mardi Gras Krewe of Rex arrived at the Expo aboard a yacht, establishing a tradition that survives today. New Orleans was still recovering from the Civil War and Reconstruction, and it was the World's Fair that helped jumpstart development around the city. Most remnants of the Cotton Exposition were demolished or destroyed in the ensuing years and Audubon Park's present form follows a a design drafted by John Charles Olmsted, a principal of the renowned Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture practice.
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Richardson Memorial was constructed in 1908. Architects Andry and Bendernagel designed it in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. Built of brick, this building was named by the Board of Tulane University in memory of Tobias Gibson Richardson, dean of the medical department and one of the original members of the board. The building originally housed laboratories and classrooms for the School of Medicine. It later housed various arts and sciences classrooms and is now home to the School of Architecture.
Tulane University, or officially The Tulane University of Louisiana, a private, nonsectarian university, was established as a public medical college in 1834 and grew into a comprehensive university in 1847 and was eventually privatized under the endowments of Paul Tulane and Josephine Louise Newcomb in 1884. Tulane's primary campus, the Uptown or St. Charles campus, was established in the 1890s and occupies more than 110 acres.
The Tulane University of Louisiana National Historic District is bound by St. Charles Avenue, South Claiborne Street, Broadway and Calhoun Street.
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Pascal Manale's Restaurant and Bar, at 1838 Napaoleon Avenue, opened in 1913. This family-run, Italian-Creole restaurant is famous for creating barbecued shrimp (BBQ Shrimp).
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Timber, a glass, steel and wood sculpture executed by Gene Koss in 1992, was installed on the Tulane University campus as part of Sculpture for New Orleans.
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Freckle, a steel sculpture executed by John Clement in 2007, was installed on the Tulane University campus as part of Sculpture for New Orleans.
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