Quotes About Elegant houses

You can take the streetcar from Canal Street and go all the way uptown on this beautiful tree lined avenue that's home to some of New Orleans' most elegant houses and neighborhoods. You'll pass the Garden District and Washington Avenue where you'll find Commander's Palace two blocks toward the river.

Oh yes Mrs. Cheever laughed a little and shook her head. In those days it was thought elegant to give names to houses. Mr. Tuckertown, for instance, being southern and romantic, named his house Bellemere, and he nearly died when it was brought to his attention that that name--pronounced a little differently--means 'mother-in-law' in the French language, particularly as his mother-in-law did live with them and was a very strong-minded lady and a close friend of Mrs. Brace-Gideon.