Banks Arcade
Banks' Arcade was a multi-use commercial structure in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The building stood on the block bounded by Gravier Street, Tchoupitoulas Street, Natchez Street, and Magazine Street, in the district then known as Faubourg Sainte Marie, later known as the American sector and now called the New Orleans Central Business District, Central Business District. The building's central axis, originally called Banks' Alley or the Arcade Passage, is now a walk street called Arcade Place within Picayune Place Historic District. History Banks' Arcade was constructed in 1833, by Thomas Banks, a heavily leveraged local businessman. Prussian immigrant engineer and surveyor Charles Zimpel was the building's architect; he also designed the City Hotel (New Orleans), City Hotel and the Bank of Orleans. The building consisted of two commercial blocks connected by a central promenade covered in a glass ceiling. For many years the three-story building fronting Magazine was a ...
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Charles Zimpel
Charles Friedrich Zimpel (December 11, 1801 - June 26, 1879) was a German architect who designed buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. from 1830 to 1837; and later, in 1864, the plan for the Jaffa to Jerusalem railway line. In particular, he designed the Bishop's City Hotel in 1831, the Bank of Orleans in 1832, as well as the Banks Arcade and the Orleans Cotton Press in 1833.
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