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Keenan, Walter Cook, 1881-1970

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Audubon Park Drawings Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SEAA-046
Scope and Contents

This collection includes drawings featuring improvements to Audubon Park in New Orleans, Louisiana, including a design by the Olmsted Brothers (from Boston, Massachusetts) for a park pavilion; blueprints for the aviary at the Audubon Park Zoo by Walter Cook Keenan (from New Orleans, La.); and an 1894 map showing Horticultural Hall (built for the 1884 Cotton Centennial Exposition, destroyed in 1915 by a hurricane), and the race track.

Dates: 1894-1948

Walter Cook Keenan New Orleans Architecture Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SEAA-078
Scope and Contents

This collection includes 1800+ loose and mounted photographic prints of New Orleans architecture made by New Orleans architect Walter Cook Keenan (1881-1970). Original negatives are also maintained. Historic structures include a number of Keenan preservation projects that often show buildings before, during, and after restoration.

Dates: 1945–1952

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Architectural photography 1
Architectural surveys 1
Landscape architecture -- Designs and plans 1
New Orleans (La) -- Buildings 1
Urban parks 1