Country Club Gardens is a residential neighborhood in Planning District Five (D5) of
,
Louisiana
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, in the
United States
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comprising homes along six streets:
* Bamboo Road
* Bellaire Drive
* Fairway Drive
* Garden Lane
* Maryland Drive
* Metairie Road
The area is bound to the north by the Lakewood neighborhood, and is separated from that area by the raised right-of-way of the
Norfolk Southern Railway
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; to the east by the
Metairie Cemetery
Metairie Cemetery is a cemetery in southeastern Louisiana. The name has caused some people to mistakenly presume that the cemetery is located in Metairie, Louisiana, but it is located within the New Orleans city limits, on Metairie Road (and f ...
and the golf course of the New Orleans Country Club; and, to the south and West, by the
17th Street Canal
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, one of the main arteries draining rain water out of the city and north to
Lake Pontchartrain
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. Because of the physical location and the street network, the neighborhood enjoys one of the lowest crime rates in the city of New Orleans.
The
Metairie Ridge, a natural levee formation of the
Bayou Metairie (no longer extant, except in
City Park
An urban park or metropolitan park, also known as a municipal park (North America) or a public park, public open space, or municipal gardens ( UK), is a park in cities and other incorporated places that offer recreation and green space to resi ...
) along whose course Metairie Road now proceeds, trends through the neighborhood and provides above-sea-level elevation for much of the land situated within a quarter of a mile of Metairie Road.
The three streets north of Metairie Road, Maryland, Bellaire and Fairway are connected via lanes named after women in the Friedrichs family which owned the plantation which comprised the land before it was sub-divided in 1924: Marguerite, Hedwige, Ethel and Natale.
Longue Vue House and Gardens
Longue Vue House and Gardens, also known as Longue Vue, is a historic house museum and associated gardens at 7 Bamboo Road in the Lakewood neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
The former home of Edgar Stern and Edith Rose ...
, a mansion on Bamboo Road, is open to the public for tours.
Fairway Drive features a roundabout at the intersection with Natalie Lane which surrounds the ancient Fairway Oak. Fairway Drive is covered by a canopy of oak trees which provide residents welcome relief from the sun and humid heat of summertime New Orleans.
Properties on the west side of Maryland Drive straddle the border between
and
Jefferson Parish Jefferson may refer to:
Names
* Jefferson (surname)
* Jefferson (given name)
People
* Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), third president of the United States
* Jefferson (footballer, born 1970), full name Jefferson Tomaz de Souza, Brazilian foo ...
, and pay property taxes to both jurisdictions, the majority going to Orleans and the City of New Orleans where the street is chartered.
Homeowners in the neighborhood may belong to the Country Club Gardens Association, which collects annual dues to provide increased security in the area and social gatherings to conduct neighborhood business. Timothy Hurley, a local attorney, has served the neighborhood association as its president for many years.
Literary works
* Janssen, James S. ''The Elves of Bellaire Drive'' (1989). Waldemar S. Nelson.
References
External links
Country Club Gardens website* Clic
hereto see a satellite view of the neighborhood in
Google Maps
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.
GNODC Lakeview District - Planning District 5
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Neighborhoods in New Orleans