To live in one of the storybook homes that populates New Orleans’s Garden District—with their extravagant ironwork and ...

The word plantation ... style dresses. Some think of the enslaved that worked there and the hardships they faced. What usually doesn’t come to mind are brightly colored single-floor homes.

Through a wide passage is a spacious dining room, with windows facing the side of the property and an atomic-style hanging light fixture. Past the dining room is the kitchen, where a built-in ...