USK New Orleans August Sketch Session: New Orleans Lakefront Airport

Let’s sketch the Lakefront Airport. We are meeting at the front steps & lobby of the New Orleans Lakefront Airport. This fabulous art deco building has a grand interior and second story gallery. Come join us to sketch in AIR CONDITIONED comfort and step back in time…. At 10:45 we will regroup to share our work in what is commonly called a throw down.

A Little History about the building: Airport construction began in 1929 by orders of Huey Long, on a man-made peninsula dredged by the Orleans Levee Board, jutting into Lake Pontchartrain on the Eastern New Orleans side of the Industrial Canal. It was designed by New Orleans architect Leon C. Weiss and his firm Weiss, Dreyfous, and Seiferth, which also designed the Louisiana State Capitol. It was originally named Shushan Airport after Levee Board president and Long ally Abraham Shushan. The airport opened on 10 February 1934. Visitors noticed that every doorknob, windowsill, countertop, and plumbing fixture bore the name or the initials of Abe Shushan.[4][5] After Shushan's name was tarnished from involvement in the Louisiana Scandals of the late 1930s, the airport was renamed New Orleans Airport in 1939.[6]

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