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Freret may refer to: People * James Freret (1838–1897), American architect * Nicolas Fréret (1688–1749), French scholar * William Alfred Freret (1833–1911), American architect * William Freret (1804–1864), twice mayor of New Orleans Places * Freret, New Orleans Freret is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. The Freret neighborhood contains a thriving commercial corridor. A subdistrict of the Uptown/ Carrollton Area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission are: South ..., a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans * 10303 Fréret, a minor planet {{disambiguation, surname, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Freret
James Freret (1838–1897) was an American architect who practiced in New Orleans, Louisiana, prolific in designing many homes in that area. About Freret was born in New Orleans, Louisiana to Livie (née D'Arensbourg) Freret and James P. Freret. His cousin William A. Freret, also an architect, and son of New Orleans mayor William Freret, redesigned the State capitol after the Civil War and headed the Office of the Supervising Architect in Washington, D.C. He studied in the office of New Orleans architect George Purves early in his career. Freret went on to study architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in the early 1860s in the atelier of Charles-Auguste Questel, one of the first Americans to study at the Ecole. He returned to the United States due to the Civil War, joining the Confederate Army's engineering corps. He was wounded in the Siege of Port Hudson, and in 1865 returned to New Orleans to open his own architecture practice. Select works * Moresque Buildi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Fréret
Nicolas Fréret (; 15 February 1688 – 8 March 1749) was a French scholar. Life He was born at Paris on 15 February 1688. His father was ''procureur'' to the ''parlement'' of Paris, and destined him to the profession of the law. His first tutors were the historian Charles Rollin and Father Desmolets (1677-1760). Amongst his early studies history, chronology and mythology held a prominent place. To please his father he studied law and began to practise at the bar; but the force of his genius soon carried him onto his own path. At nineteen he was admitted to a society of learned men before whom he read memoirs on the religion of the Greeks, on the worship of Bacchus, of Ceres, of Cybele, and of Apollo. He was hardly twenty-six years of age when he was admitted as pupil to the Academy of Inscriptions. One of the first memoirs which he read was a learned and critical discourse, ''Sur l'origine des Francs'' (1714). He maintained that the Franks were a league of South German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Alfred Freret
William Alfred Freret, Jr. Will Freret"(b. in New Orleans, Louisiana, January 19, 1833; d. 1911) was an American architect. He served from 1887 to 1888 as head of the Office of the Supervising Architect, which oversaw construction of Federal buildings. He is associated with a number of buildings that are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Biography William Alfred Freret was born in New Orleans. His father was William Freret, a mayor of the city, and his cousin James Freret was a fellow architect with whom he sometimes collaborated. He was educated in his native city and in Baton Rouge. William received an engineering degree in England and adopted architecture as his profession. At the outbreak of the American Civil War, he entered the Confederate Army as a private in the Washington Artillery from New Orleans. He was promoted from time to time, finally reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel of engineers. He served on Kirby Smith's staff, and was also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Freret
William Alfred Freret, Sr. (1804 – June 14, 1864) was Mayor of New Orleans from May 10, 1840, to April 4, 1842, and again from February 27, 1843, to May 12, 1844. He was born in New Orleans, and was of mixed English and French descent; his father was an English merchant who settled in New Orleans and married a Creole woman. His father built on the boy's natural mechanical talent, sending him to Europe to be educated in engineering and the mechanical arts. He returned to New Orleans and eventually succeeded to his father's business of compressing cotton for shipment abroad. Under his direction, the Freret Cotton Press Company became the first large industrial firm in New Orleans, and propelled him to public visibility and a political career. Despite his mixed European heritage, he joined the Native American Party, a new political group that sought to limit the influence on public affairs of Creoles and other groups viewed as "foreign." Under it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freret, New Orleans
Freret is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. The Freret neighborhood contains a thriving commercial corridor. A subdistrict of the Uptown/ Carrollton Area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission are: South Claiborne Avenue to the north, Napoleon Avenue to the east, LaSalle Street to the south and Jefferson Avenue to the west. "Freret" is for Freret Street, which was named for William Freret, a mid-19th-century New Orleans mayor. Geography Freret is located at and has an elevation of . According to the United States Census Bureau, the district has a total area of . of which is land and (0.0%) of which is water. Adjacent neighborhoods * Broadmoor (north) * Milan (east) * Uptown (south) * Audubon (west) Demographics As of the census of 2010, there were 1,715 people, 648 households, and 363 family households. Landmarks and Attractions Restaurants / Bars / Amenities The Freret Commercial Corridor, located on Freret Street between Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
