Editing New Orleans (section)

====Historic and residential architecture====
{{See also|Buildings and architecture of New Orleans}} New Orleans is world-famous for its abundance of architectural styles that reflect the city's multicultural heritage. Though New Orleans possesses numerous structures of national architectural significance, it is equally, if not more, revered for its enormous, largely intact (even post-Katrina) historic built environment. Twenty National Register Historic Districts have been established, and fourteen local historic districts aid in preservation. Thirteen of the districts are administered by the New Orleans Historic District Landmarks Commission (HDLC), while one—the French Quarter—is administered by the Vieux Carre Commission (VCC). Additionally, both the [[National Park Service]], via the [[National Register of Historic Places]], and the HDLC have landmarked individual buildings, many of which lie outside the boundaries of existing historic districts.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nolamasterplan.org/documentsandrresources.asp |title=Part 2-The Plan; Section 1-How We Live; Map-Local and National Register Historic Districts |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160115105708/http://www.nolamasterplan.org/documentsandrresources.asp |archive-date=January 15, 2016}}</ref>

Housing styles include the [[shotgun house]] and the [[bungalow]] style. Creole cottages and townhouses, notable for their large courtyards and intricate iron balconies, line the streets of the French Quarter. American townhouses, double-gallery houses, and Raised Center-Hall Cottages are notable. [[St. Charles Avenue]] is famed for its large [[Antebellum architecture|antebellum homes]]. Its mansions are in various styles, such as [[Greek Revival architecture|Greek Revival]], [[American colonial architecture|American Colonial]] and the [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] styles of [[Queen Anne style architecture in the United States|Queen Anne]] and [[Italianate architecture]]. New Orleans is also noted for its large, European-style Catholic cemeteries.