My 2nd and 3rd Favorite Buildings in New Orleans

My second favorite building is on a wonderful street in New Orleans named Carondelet. Carondelet is one of many, many of the fantastic New Orleans street names (Ursulines, Cadiz, Desire, Dauphine, Elysian Fields, etc.). The bummer about Carondelet is that people here pronounce the final syllable '-let,' instead of '-lay.' That's severely troublesome, and I am so anti-extreme-bastardization-of-correct-pronunciations.

But, I digress.

 My first spotting of my second favorite building was around Halloween, and I thought this place would make the perfect spooky, haunted mansion. I'm sure there are a lot of cobwebs in it (especially since I believe it to be inhabitable at the moment). I love its Southern Gothic-ness; in fact, it looks like a house that would exist in the novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, at least to me.

 The second floor balcony is my favorite. I love how the plants continue to thrive, even though I think they're doing that without any human tending. I want to sit up there and drink a sweaty glass of sweet tea this summer.

My third favorite building is relatively close my second favorite. It is another vacant building. There are lots of vacant buildings here in NOLA, if you didn't know. This one has multiplication tables painted on it. That's all that needs to be said, really; it's enough to make it my third favorite.