The Below Images are of the current House:
from The Witching Hour by Anne Rice:
"The doctor had never been inside an antebellum mansion until that spring in New Orleans. And the old house really did have white fluted columns on the front...Greek Revival style they call it -- a long violet-gray town house on a dark shady corner in the Garden District, it's front gate guarded it seemed by two enormous oaks. The iron lace railings were made in a rose pattern and much festooned with vines; purple wisteria, the yellow Virginia creeper and bougainvillea of a dark, incandescent pink....
(Image from victoriana.com)
Always he paused at the largest tree that had lifted the iron fence with its bulbous roots. He could not have gotten his arms around the trunk of it. It reached all the way from the pavement to the house itself, twisted limbs clawing at the shuttered windows beyond the banisters, leaves enmeshed with the flowering vines."
Great shots of the pool where Michael was found ...
These two pictures look like the side porch where comatose Deirdre spent her days... or possibly the windows Antha fell to her death?
I love the images of the inside of the house where Mary Beth, Julien and Carlotta all lived.
I can see Stella dancing the Charleston in the Ballroom below before she she, too, came to a tragic end like her relatives.
The murals in the house date back the the nineteenth century.
I wonder who lives there now, and I wonder if they to sleep with their Ipod on?!?
Color images found on The Well Appointed House Blog.
