Oxford Square second story balconies built to look like New Orleans balconies...

Jukin and Vecchio and Hail get your asses in here and start explaining


the pubic has a right to know

LIAR!!!!

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Cotton District neighborhood

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One of the best places to live as a student

Basically live right around all of the bars and are within walking distance to campus and downtown Starkville. It has really grown here the past 5-10 years.

No room to really grow anywhere but upward on the square. May as well make it look good.

Starkville is of course copying while simultaneously claiming not to be.

Starkville is “copying“ a build style that has been used for centuries. Ole Miss fans do nothing but cry

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Main article: French Quarter

"Madame John's Legacy" was built just after the great fire of 1788, in the older, French colonial style.
Due to refurbishings in the Victorian style after the Louisiana Purchase, only a handful of buildings in the French Quarter preserve their original colonial French or Spanish architectural styles, concentrated mainly around the cathedral and Chartres Street. Most of the 2,900 buildings in the Quarter are either of "second generation" Creole or Greek revival styles. Fires in 1788 and 1794 destroyed most of the original French colonial buildings, that is, "first generation" Creole. They were generally raised homes with wooden galleries, the only extant example being Madame John's Legacy at 632 Dumaine Street, built during the Spanish period in 1788. The Ursuline Convent (1745–1752) is the last intact example of French colonial architecture. Of the structures built during the French or Spanish colonial eras, only some 25 survive to this day (including the Cabildo and the Presbytère), in a mixture of colonial Spanish and neo-classical styles.

Following the two great fires of New Orleans in the late 18th century, Spanish administrators enforced strict building codes, requiring strong brick construction and thick fire proof walls between adjoining buildings to avoid another city fire and to resist hurricanes but the Spanish did not directly influence much of the Quarter's architecture. Spanish influence came indirectly in the form of Creole style, a mixture of French and Spanish architecture with some elements from the Caribbean.

Two-thirds of the French Quarter structures date from the first half of the 19th century, the most prolific decade being the 1820s, when the city was growing at an amazing rate. Records show that not a single Spanish architect was operating in the city by that time; only French and American were, the latter gradually replacing the former as Creole style was being replaced by Greek revival architecture in the 1830s and 1840s.

From its south end to the intersection with Claiborne Avenue, Canal Street is extremely dense with buildings. Each building, being no larger than half a New Orleans block, has a notably intricate façade. All of these buildings contrast each other in style, from Greek revival, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco, to Renaissance Colonial, and one of Gothic architecture. Also there is Post-modern, Mid-century modern, Streamline Moderne, and other types of 20th-century architecture. However, most of these buildings have lost their original interiors because of hurricane damage and business renovations.

Jackson Square took its current form in the 1850s: the Cathedral was redesigned, mansard rooftops were added to the Cabildo and to the Presbytère, and the Pontalba apartments were built on the sides of the square, adorned with ironwork balconies. The popularity of wrought iron or cast iron balconies in New Orleans began during this period.

OP, have you ever been to New Orleans?

Oxford, Mississippi bears no resemblance.

Oxford did NOT originate the New Orleans "Oxford" architectural look the OP described. Oxford was a patch of Indian trails when New Orleans French Quarter was built. The French Quarter was surveyed and it's 70 block grids laid in 1719. The buildings and designations were designed in Paris in 1721-1722 and built in Louisiana beginning in 1734. Fires destroyed most of the French Quarter in the 1780s and it was rebuilt in the late 1790s. The Town Square in Oxford was built in the 1840s & 1850s, burned during the Civil War and was very slowly rebuilt between the 1870's and 1890's. There is NOTHING original in the Oxford or Starkville flat roof board & batten balcony architecture. They're copies of French architecture most famously built in New Orleans many years before Oxford or Starkville had a single building.

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Oxford was the originator of that architecture style. There's a reason its called the "Oxford balcony" in all architecture literature. You can look it up.

New Orleans, and to a lesser degree Starkville, stolt it.

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