American novelist Louis Edwards’s Greek Revival mansion in New Orleans fuses old French, Creole and African styles, imbuing its grand interiors with a sense of the city’s past.
The maximalist 19th-century Louisiana townhouse lies in the city’s artistic Lower Garden District, known for its large mansions with their symmetrical façades and beautiful wrought-iron balcony arches and columns.
Its ornate rooms have high ceilings and ornate plasterwork that forms the backdrop for the Whiting Award-winning novelist’s eclectic collection of artworks, objet d’art and antique furniture and rugs that reflect New Orleans’s multicultural heritage.
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Edwards, 59, has penned three novels, and his fourth, Ramadan Ramsey, is being released in August. His pastel-hued five-bedroom house on Camp Street is on sale for $1.15m with Dorian Bennett Sotheby’s International Realty.
Two crystal chandeliers hang above the double reception room, which has passementerie-decorated curtains, a central arch with corbels and crown mouldings, varnished wooden flooring and two open fireplaces. Meanwhile, the stone-flagged hallway has three full-height windows with views of the courtyard garden’s tropical foliage, giving it a garden room feel.
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