Show strange houses erected on levee at new orleans NEW ORLEANS LA built at the bottom of one of the massive levees of the mississippi river at new orleans its broad encircling gallery giving ac a wide view of the swirling river is one of the strangest architectural oddities in the united states a home constructed to imitate the bridge of one of the old time river packets the effect as a whole is what it is meant to be designed by capt W B dollet bar pilot engineer and owner of a shipyard the unique home was erected at the turn of the twentieth century and since then has been a landmark along the river front in downtown new orleans when his son married a few years later he too built his residence along the same lines not far away the two buildings attracting a good deal of attention from natives and visitors alike |