Garden District Mansions, St. Charles Streetcar & Uptown Life

The Garden District (the antebellum neighbourhood of Greek Revival and Italianate mansions in the Uptown New Orleans area, developed after the Louisiana Purchase by the American settlers who built their grand houses in the American plantation tradition) and St. Charles Avenue (the most beautiful tree-lined boulevard in the American South, home to the oldest continuously operating streetcar line in the world (since 1835)) form the most architecturally magnificent residential area in New Orleans.