“Gordon Plaza for the Elderly,”

ID: 5242 ~ Source: Image courtesy of UNO Special Collections microfilm collection. ~ Creator: Times-Picayune, New Orleans, LA. ~ Date: August 26, 1979.

This file appears in: Constructing Gordon Plaza

This file appears in: Constructing Gordon Plaza

Constructing Gordon Plaza

By Kathryn O'Dwyer, Shelby Loyacano & Elizabeth Williams

In the 1970s, under the administrations of Mayors “Moon” Landrieu and his successor “Dutch” Morial, the city planned and built housing for elderly and low-income families on the former site of…