The building, constructed in 1849 by the wealthy Baroness Pontalba as a center for the social elite, had fallen into disrepair and, by the turn of the 20th century, become tenement housing. altogether more stupid joy of growth and achievement.” In the Vieux Carré, the famous Modernist had found his American Paris.Īfter a short stay in the winter of 1921, in 1924 Anderson decided to move permanently into an upper Pontalba building apartment with his new wife, Elizabeth Prall, and his son Robert. In New Orleans, he found the leisure and charm that he felt the nation had lost: the value of “putting the joy of living above the much less subtle and. They are truly a people of culture.” Anderson, riding the crest of literary fame following his novel Winesburg, Ohio, was in search of an American city free from the “speeding up and the standardization of thought” produced by industrialization. “Blessed be these people,” Sherwood Anderson wrote in 1922 from his third-floor apartment in the Vieux Carré.
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