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The Chicory House is a new Garden District café, replacing Still Perkin’ as The Rink’s resident coffee shop — and more. Two owners of the Garden District Book Shop in The Rink at Prytania and Washington, Carroll Gelderman and Barkley Rafferty, own The Chicory House as well. They took ownership of the bookstore in early […]
My New Orleans 04/20/2021 NEW ORLEANS (press release) – The Garden District Book Shop is pleased to announce an evening celebrating local author and architect, Robert J. Cangelosi Jr., and his new addition to the New Orleans Architecture series,“New Orleans Architecture: Volume IX: Carrollton”, on May 1 at The Hyacinth House at 923 S Carrollton Ave. The evening will feature a book discussion and signing that will occur outdoors and socially distanced. Cangelosi is president and partner at local Koch and Wilson Architects as well as an esteemed expert on New Orleans architecture. His lat...
Browsers stay masked and socially distant at Octavia Books in October. Independent booksellers ordinarily rely on foot traffic and in-person browsing for their sales. That all changed in March of last year. Two Uptown bookstores, however, have found ways to adapt and even thrive through the pandemic. Garden District Book Shop, in a historic building that once housed a roller rink on oak-canopied Prytania Street, and Octavia Books, set back on a diagonal on its quiet eponymous street near the river, have both continued to sell books to residents across the city. By altering their in-store brow...