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For the month of December there were 10 condo sales and 14 that went under contract in the Warehouse District of New Orleans.

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As a Full Time Realtor and Native New Orleanian, I’ve always had a knack for architecture and I’m fascinated by the history of New Orleans.  My love of the city and its’ one of a kind charm sparked my interest in Real Estate.  Its’ totally unique and reminds one of a European City.  I knew one of the best ways to learn and see more of the city, visit all of its’ exhibits and experience its’ charm was to get in to Real Estate.  I have worked for some of the top companies in the Gulf Region. My experience over the years has formed me into a very knowledgeable Realtor.  I am highly motivated and strive for the best for my clients, both Buyers and Sellers.   I am very energetic and I’m always open to new ideas. I can handle all of your tailored Real Estate needs, including but not limited to both Commercial and Residential Sales and Leases for both Buyers and Sellers.  Condos are my forte!  I keep the public informed with my Monthly Warehouse District Condo Sales Statistics & Tips on Keeping Your Investment.  You can’t go wrong with choosing me as your Real Estate Professional.  You can follow me and find additional information on Facebook @ LaurenPaigeMaginnis

Dorian Bennett Sotheby’s International Realty
www.DBSIR.com
2340 Dauphine St. NOLA 70117
O: 504-944-3605 C: 504-220-4044 F: 504-324-0402
lauren.paige@sothebysrealty.com
Each Office Is Independently Owned and Operated
1/16/2012

141 Metairie Court

Welcome to 141 Metairie Court Parkway…

Under construction at the outbreak of WWII, 141 Metairie Court Parkway was completed in 1942. A charming Old Metairie home in a very desirable part of Old Metairie. This wonderful home is close to good schools and wonderful neighbors. With 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, central heat/air, oak wood floors throughout except for the foyer which is slate and a fenced back yard this would make a great starter home for a young family.

A well thought out floor plan gives privacy to each bedroom yet an open feeling to the living and dining rooms. bright and cheerful with windows on all sides and lots of

Living Room

natural light.

Built in 1942 this home has great architectural features for its period and was last updated in the 70′s. The garage holds one vehicle plus storage. The driveway accommodates 4 cars comfortably.

Listed by Pat Kahn 504.450.4506 of Dorian Bennett Sotheby’s International Realty 504.944.3605.

For more information on this property and others we have listed click here!

Each office is independently owned and operated.

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Dining Room

Foyer

Back Yard

Woodruff-Tucker

The Woodruff-Tucker House

168 Natchez Street

Woodville  MS  39669

The Woodruff-Tucker Home has long been associated with significant families and local history ever since it was built in 1876 . . the second of only two surviving Greek Revival structures in the Woodville National Register Historic District.  It has been well cared for throughout its life and in recent years has been lovingly restored by its present owners.  It has been in his family for over fifty years.  Cosmetic repairs continue in the main four rooms but the rest of the structure is sound and in move-in condition.

Exterior Back

There are several distinctive architectural features which add enormously to the charm of this four room with wide center hall floor plan; among them the two unique side wings, a low front gallery with full length windows,  and the unusually steep hip roof with four  high chimneys topped by Terra-cotta pots.  The interior has fifteen foot ceilings, huge windows and great natural light, and a wonderful enclosed rear gallery/den.  Many of the original details such as heart pine floors, original mantels, and plaster moldings are very special.

Living Room

The home is set on a huge one and a half acre lot which slopes down from Natchez Street on the east to Sligo Street on the west. The sloping lot allows for a two story rear with a lower floor with unfinished rooms and exciting potential for expansion.

Woodville is a delightful early Mississippi town set around a court house square and with over 240 homes and sites on the Register.  The entire town is within walking distance of its shops, museums, and businesses.

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LOT:                                       160 x 340

SQUARE FOOTAGE:           4400 SF Living Area; 4400 SF Unfinished Lower Floor

BEDROOMS:                        Now two but could be up 4 or 5 easily.

BATHS:                                Three full baths

OFFERED AT:                       $199,500

Listed by Ernesto Caldeira 504.523.1553 and David Abner Smith 504.495.2387 of Dorian Bennett Sotheby’s International Realty 504.944.3605. For more information on this property and others we have listed click here!

Each office is independently owned and operated.

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Kitchen

Rear Gallery/Den

Bedroom

Walter Place

Welcome to Walter Place… The home was built by Harvey Washington Walter in 1857 and it was designed by a local architect, Spires Boling, as a classic Greek Revival house but his unique touch was to add massive medieval Gothic towers with castellated battlements to each end of the house . . a look that is distinctive to this day to Walter Place.

Side Gardens

When Holly Springs was captured by Union forces in 1862 Gen. Ulysses S. Grant commandeered Walter Place to be a residence for his wife and son and her slave.

After the War it became a hospital for the Yellow Fever Epidemic that swept the area in 1878 taking with it Col. Walter and three of his sons.

His youngest daughter Irene however married an immensely wealthy entrepreneur and shoe manufacturer, Oscar Johnson, and Walter Place began a second exciting chapter.

Master Stair

In 1903 Irene and Oscar Johnson hired another famous architect, Theodore Link, the architect of the then new Mississippi Capitol  and they acquired two additional neighboring “cottages” . . the 1834 Featherston Place and the 1836 Polk Place . .to add to their homeplace.

To tie it all together they hired George Kessler who had been designing noted city parks in Indianapolis, Kansas City, and Memphis to design a forty acre botanical park and create their paradise.

Family Room

Today Walter Place fronts on W Chulahoma Avenue one of the main downtown streets in Holly Springs while Featherston Place and Polk Place are both on South Craft Street with the formal entrance to the gardens in between.

Irene Walter and Oscar Johnson had style and they lavished their attentions on their project and restored Featherston Place and Polk Place . . both noted for their English style with basements that provided relief from the stifling summer heat.

The Johnsons lived at Walter Place when they weren’t in New York or Paris or the Hamptons.  It was the Gilded Age and Walter Place prospered.   It was furnished and filled with appropriate art and antique furnishings.

He had a railroad car, lots of friends and family, and life was glamorous

Japanese Pavillion

However Oscar died in 1916 and the home-place went into a long sleep.

In 1983 the current owners bought and rescued Walter Place, they also bought back the two houses that had been sold, as well as fifteen acres of the gardens and began an award winning restoration.

Original furnishings were returned to Walter Place and the house with its sixteen foot ceilings was filled with appropriate furniture, mirrors, chandeliers, and historical memorabilia.

The gardens have come alive with waterfalls, endless natural trails, fish ponds and walking paths.

300 W. Chulahoma Ave. – Offered at: $9,500,000

Listed by Ernesto Caldeira 504.523.1553 and David Abner Smith 504.495.2387 of Dorian Bennett Sotheby’s International Realty 504.944.3605. For more information on this property and others we have listed please click here!

Each office is independently owned and operated.

Dining Room

Pool & Terrace

Waterfall

True French Quarter style condo on the 1st floor off the patio with charming pond. Granite counter, totally renovated and a great floorplan! Jacuzzi and double sink in bath, washer/dryer in unit. Furnished and available immediately!

Listed by Roy Guest 504.616.8222 and Pat Kahn 504.450.4506 of Dorian Bennett Sotheby’s International Realty 504.944.3605.

For more information on this listing and others we have for sale please click here!

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4120 Dauphine

Sitting on a large key lot (44×159), which is quite rare in Bywater, this jewel in the rough has all the architectural details you would expect from a cottage built in the 1860′s.  Beautiful hardwood floors, hardwood ceilings, barge board construction, and even original cooking hearths (non-functional) on either side of this single family home converted from a double.

This property has ample off-street parking and also boasts numerous matured fruit trees in the back yard.  Don’t miss this chance to get into the very high in demand historic neighborhood of Bywater.”

Mature Fruit Trees

This wonderful property is listed by Patrick Knudsen 504.858.0623 of Dorian Bennett Sotheby’s International Realty 504.944.3605. To view more information on this property or others we have listed please click here!

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Be filled with the wonder, Be touched by the peace . . .

Believe in the miracle…

Wishing you and yours all the best this Holiday Season

From the Agents and Staff

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Dorian Bennett Sotheby’s International Realty

610 Burgundy

Unit 610 is the largest of the four condominium units and occupies the entire main Creole Cottage residence.   The other three units are in the dependency buildings.

The two story unit opens onto a shared courtyard and it can be entered either from the street or from a side entrance to the courtyard.

All of the work has been done by local craftsmen and it has marble floors, two wood burning fireplaces,

Kitchen

sumptuous baths, and endless elegant details.

It has a spacious dine in kitchen and den, a spectacular dining room with  a gold leafed ceiling, a parlour or second bedroom, and one and a half baths downstairs; upstairs it has a huge master suite with a bath at either end.

Listed by Ernesto Caldeira 504.523.1553 and David Abner Smith 504.495.2387 of Dorian Bennett Sotheby’s International Realty 504.944.3605.

Dining Room

Living Room

Family/Great Room

Warehouse District Condo Sales and Stats in New Orleans in October and November.

October Warehouse District Sales & Stats

Household Tricks and Tips!

Prevent Clogs in Your Kitchen Sink!
If you’ve ever had a clogged kitchen sink, you know how disruptive it can be.
You can prevent clogs by observing these practices:

1. Run the garbage disposal long enough to hear it change speed once the food hasgone through the disposal. Continue to run the water into the disposal for 10 seconds to make sure all ground  food is pushed beyond the P-trap.2. Don’t overload the garbage disposal. Plumbers make numerous house calls at Thanksgiving to unclog sinks with loads of potato peels jammed in them.Egg shells are another problem, since they break into small, flat pieces that are too large to go through the drain holes in the disposal, but not high enough to be  reached by the moving parts that break food up.

November Condo Sales & Stats

How to Fix Doorknob Holes in Walls!
*You can permanently fix doorknob holes in your walls by turning an ordinary piece of wallboard into a custom patch with a built-in flap.
*First, cut out all crumbling wall material and square off the hole.
*Next, cut a piece of wallboard so it’s larger than the hole by about 2″ all the way around.
*Measure the hole, and draw an equivalent square on your wallboard patch. Create the flap by scoring and carefully removing everything but the wallboard paper outside the plug part of the patch.
*Place joint compound, or” mud”, onto both the flap and the hole, and fit the patch into the hole, smoothing the edges down with a wide-bladed putty knife.  Add very thin layers of mud over the patch and onto the wall for a smooth transition.  Add texture with a brush or your fingers.
*When it’s dry, sand lightly and paint.

 

Lauren Paige Maginnis
Dorian Bennett Sotheby’s International Realty

2340 Dauphine Street

New Orleans, LA 70117

C:504-220-4044

O:504-944-3605

F:504-324-0402

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West Bank Expressway

Manhattan Blvd. Vacant land…Prime Location  – Harvey, Louisiana
West Bank Expressway@ Farrington Drive… Vacant Land …High Viability – Marrero, Louisiana

Manhattan Blvd fronts Manhattan, includes lots 8,9,10,11 and 12 as a whole. MANHATTAN IS A KEY THOROUGHFARE. IT IS ONE OF THE LARGEST PARCELS OF PROPERTY LEFT ON MANHATTAN BLVD. DEMOGRAPHICS SHOW THAT APPROXIMATELY 25,000 CARS PASS EACH WAY EVERY DAY. GREAT LOCATION. NO DEVELOPMENT RESTRICTIONS. Dimensions 220 x 276 on the left before Lapalco. It neighbors Southern Tittle on the left and across the street on the right is a small stri

L-Shaped Lot next to Burger King

p mall.  On the corner of Manhattan and Elton Court Rd.  Measuring 53,940sf  Asking price $1,423,500  @ 25psf.  IS NEGOTIABLE BRING OFFER.

Westbank Expressway @ Farrington Court Fronts the West Bank Express Way. L shaped lot. Neighbors Burger King on the left and an apartment complex on the right.  Land comes with 2 sided billboard with visibly from both sides that line up perfectly with the over pass.  It generates $1,500 a month. NO DEVELOPMENT RESTRICTIONS. Land measuring 80,983sf asking price $971,796 @ 12psf

Each office is independently Owned and Operated.