The Storytelling Ironwork of New Orleans
(via Atlas Obscura) The next time you’re in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, and you fancy hearing a story about the dramatic life of a famed 19th-century businesswoman, or a Spaniard whose taste in design has become a classic for all the wrong reasons, all you need to do is look up: the Vieux Carré’s iron balconies are plenty talkative.