Laux Manor Drive, located near Airline Highway in Jefferson Parish, features a number of early Curtis and Davis designs. The firm's twenty-three FHA residences for developer Fred C. Loucks received a First Prize Award from the Gulf States Region of the American Institute of Architects. Early reports touted Laux Manor as the city's first fully air-conditioned subdivision.(1)
John W. Coffman, Jr. Residence (1953)
4 Laux Manor Drive
Architects: Curtis and Davis
Milton Breeding Residence (1953)
5 Laux Manor Drive
Architects: Curtis and Davis
Stanley Masson Residence (1953)
6 Laux Manor Drive
Architects: Curtis and Davis
Claude L. Kramer Residence (1953)
7 Laux Manor Drive
Architects: Curtis and Davis
Richard Souce Residence (1953)
9 Laux Manor Drive
Architects: Curtis and Davis
Charles Quinn Residence (1953)
10 Laux Manor Drive
Architects: Curtis and Davis
John T. Carson Residence (1953)
11 Laux Manor Drive
Architects: Curtis and Davis
Mahlon "Mel" Leavitt Residence (1953)
13 Laux Manor Drive
Architects: Curtis and Davis
James Cox Residence (1953)
14 Laux Manor Drive
Architects: Curtis and Davis
Harvey T. Zammit Residence (1953)
16 Laux Manor Drive
Architects: Curtis and Davis
Lowell McKee Residence (1953)
18 Laux Manor Drive
Architects: Curtis and Davis
Chris Dobard Residence (1953)
20 Laux Manor Drive
Architects: Curtis and Davis
(1)"Laux Manor, New Orleans First All Air-Conditioned Subdivision Opens." The Times-Picayune 7 June 1953.
Image above: Curtis and Davis, architects. John W. Coffman, Jr. Residence. 4 Laux Manor Drive, New Orleans, LA. Google Street View June 2014.
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