#New Orleans mansion

[iridessence]

from my self-guided tour of the derbès mansion

[hometoursandotherstuff]

This is the stunning, historic Goldsmith-Godchaux House in New Orleans. It was built in 1859 and was renovated and returned to its original layout of a single family home with 2 guest suites. It’s currently for sale for $2.550M. And, it’s pink!

It has the typical shotgun look, but the porch has lovely columns, b/c it’s a mansion. The 2nd level has a balcony like most of the larger homes. 

Here’s something you don’t usually see in a shotgun style home- wallpaper. It has a true Victorian look.

The main sitting room clearly had a wall taken down, so now it’s an amazingly large, double fireplace space. 

The wallpaper and colors are gorgeous.

Check out this ceiling. The realtor says these are frescos, but it’s wallpaper. 

3 doors, all different styles, in the keeping room. Look at the striped wood floor. 

What a great dining room- love the fireplace. It could fit a much grander table. 

It also has a beautiful ceiling.

The kitchen remodel is wonderful. 

This bedroom was left completely original and has a marble fireplace.

Updated bath en suite.

It looks like they left the bedrooms intact. They have beautiful fireplaces and that old New Orleans ambience.

This room in the back was reno’d and has giant windows for enjoying the garden.

The home is very large- on 3 levels.

The 2nd level houses one of the guest suites. This is a sitting room (they must’ve had some long term guests.)

The suite also has a dining room.

And, a full kitchen. (Even a dishwasher.)

This floor also has an original bdrm and a new bath.

On the 3rd fl. is another guest suite. It has a sitting room.

And, also a great kitchen.

Plus a nice large bedroom.

And, this unfinished space that the owner uses for storage. The pot belly stove is so cute, though. 

The terrace for the 2nd fl. suite.

The gardens include 2 ponds.

Plus a porch and patio.

And, a pool. What an incredible house.

https://theoldhouselife.com/2022/08/15/stunning-interior-goldsmith-godchaux-house-circa-1859-in-new-orleans-louisiana-2550000/

[lionfloss]

New Orleans

[luxus-aeterna]

existing dramatically in the historic mansion parlor I deserve… // IG

[porcelainapparition]

New Orleans, Louisiana

built in 1859

[kirockk]

The Hat Box. Don't you think that they should put a hat store in New Orleans Square? My illustration of the Hat Box Ghost. Kurt Kress

[disneyparksart]

The Haunted Mansion (New Orleans Square, Disneyland, Disneyland Resort)

[ben-the-hyena]

How I went from bracing myself to super hyped in 2 minutes about the new Haunted Mansion movie I was expecting to hate, for how good the very introduction is

Just listen to that bop and you'll partially understand what I mean. What a great way to start a HM movie

[adventurelandia]

Coming Attractions

Walt Disney’s Guide to Disneyland (1963)

[pretty-little-fools]

[princess-ibri]

Sheesh I'd had this as a draft for almost four months now sorry :/

Originally I wasnt going to do backstories for the PatF characters until the Tiana show came out but they keep pushing it back so what the heck.

Mama Odie Backstory

Real name is Ozigbodi

She was born in 1729 to enslaved parents brought over from Ghana, when New Orleans was still under French rule 

She was born with a condition that caused progressive blindness

Her mother passed down to her in secret the practices of their ancestors, which came to be known as voodoo.

At the age of 16, she was able to escape slavery and found a home deep in the bayou, where she truly began her life as a priestess, helping those in need who crossed her path

Over her long life  she had many adventures, both mundane and magical. She helped slaves escape, crossed paths with such legendary figures as the pirates Jean Lafitte and William "Blood" Gracey, did a service for the mysterious Tia Dalma for which she was granted her seeming immortality, learned of the existence of other realms such as the Everrealm, taught a young Madame Leota her trade and even married and had a child at one point.

This child would found a line that eventually culminated in the birth of one Andre Facilier, who Mama Odie taught for a time before realizing the boy was attempting to use his power for dark means and cutting off his teaching, which unfortunately only spurred him into making a deal with some of the dark loa of The Other Side

[itsamonroe]

More rapid than vultures, the mansion was changed – All was soon covered, adorned and deranged!

Posterized Parks Series // New Orleans Square

[viridiansunset]

Vieux Carré

New Orleans

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Maison Vitry is an elegantly decaying historical mansion in New Orleans was an airbnb, but I couldn’t find it.  It’s one of my favorite NOLA homes. It was built for freed black woman Louise Vitry, and her French consort, Archille Courcelle in 1855.

The care and love that has been poured into this home to restore it to her original glory is just wonderful. There’s nothing I like more than elegant beauty in decay.

The front sitting room.

Front parlor. You can see the closed plantation shutters thru the windows, but look at the patina on the wood and the peeling plaster.

This is called the rear parlor. 

It’s got just enough haunted vibes to make you feel like you’re not alone.

The original dining room is on the main floor.

The upstairs hallway.

The kitchen is on the 2nd. floor right off the hall.

The bath off the kitchen. 

Main bedroom. 

Drawing room. 

Lovely screened in porch in the back of the house.

Beautiful garden.

https://maisonvitry.com/

[corndogsonmainst]

A secondary, independent source stated to me that this is “probably true”.

Possibly no classic Mansion for more than a year 🙀😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😾

And I fear for what we might get back eventually.

[galaad-spectre]

https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2023/08/new-haunted-mansion-grounds-expansion-retail-shop-coming-to-disneyland-resort-in-2024/

[NEWS] Des concepts arts pour une extension des espaces extérieurs de The Haunted Mansion en Californie ont été dévoilés. D'ici 2024, il y aurait une boutique et un jardin dont le décor nous en diraient plus sur des personnages de l'attraction comme Madame Leota.

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[NEWS] New concepts arts for extended exterior areas around the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland California had been unveiled. Pllaned for 2024, there would be a shop and gardens that would tell us more about some characters from the ride, like Madame Leota.