301 Wells St.

Square: D Lot Number: 11002-04

Image Description — Title
301 Wells (Square D)

Date
02/22/2011

Negative Number

2_d_well_301

Courtesy of
*The Historic New Orleans Collection. Publication may be restricted.*

Creator
*John Watson Riley*

Provenance
© The Historic New Orleans Collection 2011

Square Images

Title
Levee (Sq. 4A right foreground; Sq. C Sugar Park middleground; Sq. B sugar shed behind park; Sq. 2A sugar mill behind sheds; Sq. 3A sugar refinery right background; Sq. D sugar shed left middleground behind boxcar; Sq. A sugar shed left background)

Date
[ca. 1890?]

Negative Number

2-B-001

Courtesy of
Louisiana State Museum. Publication may be restricted.

Provenance
Negative No. B-28 lent by Louisiana State Museum
Title
DPM Square D square map

Negative Number

2-D-001

Courtesy of
City of New Orleans. Publication may be restricted.

Provenance
City Hall Department of Property Management
Title
Sanborn's Insurance Maps

Date
1896

Negative Number

N-1280

Courtesy of
Special Collections Division, Tulane University Libraries. Publication may be restricted.

Creator
Sanborn

Provenance
Howard-Tilton Library (Tulane University)
Title
Sanborn's Insurance Maps

Date
1896

Negative Number

N-1280DD

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Special Collections Division, Tulane University Libraries. Publication may be restricted.

Creator
Sanborn

Provenance
Howard-Tilton Library (Tulane University)
Title
Sanborn's Insurance Maps

Date
April 1876

Negative Number

N-1451

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Special Collections Division, Tulane University Libraries. Publication may be restricted.

Creator
Sanborn

Provenance
Howard-Tilton Library (Tulane University)
Title
Sanborn's Insurance Maps

Date
April 1876

Negative Number

N-1451DD

Courtesy of
Special Collections Division, Tulane University Libraries. Publication may be restricted.

Creator
Sanborn

Provenance
Howard-Tilton Library (Tulane University)
Title
Sugar Refineries (Sq. C/Sugar Park in foreground; Sq. B/Sugar shed behind park; Sq. 3A sugar refineries on right; Sq. 2A sugar mill behind sheds)

Date
after 1884

Negative Number

N-2267

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Special Collections Division, Tulane University Libraries. Publication may be restricted.

Provenance
New Orleans Through a Camera (1890s?)
Title
The Sugar Sheds (Sugar Shed/Sq. A in foreground, Shed/Sq. B in left background, Shed/Sq. D in right background)

Date
[ca. 1873]

Negative Number

N-696

Courtesy of
No known restrictions on publication.

Creator
[John William Orr?]

Provenance
Jewell's Crescent City Illustrated (1873), by Edwin L. Jewell
Title
Levee (Sugar shed D in background)

Date
[after 1883?]

Negative Number

N-528

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The Historic New Orleans Collection has been unable to identify or contact the current copyright owner. Publication may be restricted.

Provenance
Original photograph lent by Mrs. Sam Wilson, Jr. (Collection Mrs. Laurence Fowler - Baltimore)

Dimensions

Frontage	330′ 0″ 0‴
2	103′ 0″ 0‴
3	340′ 0″ 0‴
4	87′ 0″ 0‴

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Last Updated: Monday, April 1st 1974

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City of New Orleans

Square D [N.B: Originally one of five "Sugar Sheds" built ca. 1870 on the batture between Iberville and St. Louis Sts., adjacent to the sugar refinery buildings; the sheds were all approximately 308 ft. in length when built, the measurements given here reflect surveying done a century later.] 2nd District, bb. Conti, Bienville, Wells, and Mississippi River. No other information available. Owned by the City of New Orleans.