1031 Canal St.

Vieux Carré Commission Evaluation:

[Brown. F.W. Woolworth Store. A 2-story, commercial structure, 1939. Jones, Roessle, Olschner, architects. An 1836 building contract cites the intended presence of a "three story brick dwelling house & three story back building" on this lot. It is likely that this is the structure depicted in Marie Adrien Persac sketch of the 1000 block of Canal, dated ca. 1872. The building had a gabled or mansard roof, decorative grilles, an upper-level balcony and a second-floor gallery. An 1894 photograph from Solari’s "New Orleans," however, suggests that this structure was either demolished or its façade was heavily renovated by the end of the nineteenth century. The new construction had a flat roof, no upper-level gallery or grilles, and a denticulated cornice along its roofline. This single structure was demolished no later than 1939, when the F.W. Woolworth building was built upon these four lots. The extant structure is the result of a 1969 renovation, which included the expansion of Woolworth’s second floor retail area. The building now has several decorative arched windows on its upper levels, a flat roofline and a chamfered entryway on the corner of Canal and N. Rampart Streets.] [N.B: At the time the VCS chains of title were abstracted, the building sat on four separate lots: 1031 Canal (Lot 11508), 1033-1035 Canal (Lot 11509), 100-108 N. Rampart (Lot 11512) and 120 N. Rampart (Lot 11515).] [Squares in the 100 block of the French Quarter (those that front Canal Street and back on Iberville Street) are not part of the original Vieux Carré and have never been evaluated by the Vieux Carré Commission. Rather, their historical status is the domain of another city agency, the Historic District Landmarks Commission (HDLC).] [The c. 1965, color-coded architectural evaluation square maps for these squares found in the VCS binders were most likely executed by architect Sam Wilson, but they are obviously not official, as the HDLC was not even in existence then. The official color ratings given here have been taken from the HDLC’s current maps.] [N.B: Squares in the 100 block of the French Quarter (those that front Canal Street and back on Iberville Street) are not part of the original Vieux Carré and have never been evaluated by the Vieux Carré Commission. Rather, their historical status is the domain of another city agency, the Historic District Landmarks Commission (HDLC). The c. 1965, color-coded architectural evaluation square maps for these squares found in the VCS binders were most likely executed by architect Sam Wilson, but they are obviously not official, as the HDLC was not even in existence then. The official color ratings given here have been taken from the HDLC’s current maps.]