Kansas City to Baton Rouge part 2

Kansas City to Baton Rouge part 2

Iowa State College landscape architecture professor Philip Elwood takes students on a tour of the southern and eastern United States in 1931. In Natchez, Mississippi they view the old plantation home "Brandon," and typical sunken roadways nearby.
From there it is on to Uncle Sam's Ranch near New Orleans, Audubon Park with its great swimming pool, the towers of Tulane University, and the great live oaks. In New Orleans they also visit Audubon Place, cross the Mississippi by boat, and see shipping board craft abandoned after the war.
They then travel to "Oak Lawn Garden" near Franklin; "Shadows on the Teche," home of the painter Weeks Hall; visit the Aviary Island bird sanctuary and the home of the owner; the old plantation manor house in St. Francesville,"Rose Dawn" with it's French treillage garden house and entrance gateway; the Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge; and, construction of the new state house.

P. H. Elwood (Philip Homer), b. 1884

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1931

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