Schwartz Silver, Shaw Center, Baton Rouge LA
Day 9 - Baton Rouge / Biloxi
We spent the day on the road heading towards Dauphin Island. Our first stop was in Baton Rouge, then headed to the Holy Rosary Church. Here we saw a really interesting building, but because the details hadn't been properly worked out the almost new buildings are already being replaced. Concrete overhangs above many of the doors have dropped below their original height, leaving no room to open the doors.
Afterwards we drove to Biloxi, a town that had been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Most of the new residential construction that was happening involved some system of stilts to raise the houses above a reasonable flood height, similar to what had been done in New Orleans. Here we also saw a museum designed by Frank Gehry that was partially under construction.
In the evening we drove to Dauphin Island, and had dinner at the Oar House (really bad service, over an hour wait for food, none of us would go there again).
In the evening we drove to Dauphin Island, and had dinner at the Oar House (really bad service, over an hour wait for food, none of us would go there again).
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| Holy Rosary |
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| Holy Rosary |
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| Holy Rosary Chapel |
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| Holy Rosary |
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| Biloxi |
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| Porchdog house by Marlon Blackwell |
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| Porchdog |
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| Gehry Museum |
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| Gehry Museum |
Shaw Center, Baton Rouge LA
We didn't have time to go into the Shaw Center because we were on our way to Lousiana State University. It was such a large building that it was hard to photograph from the outside.
A connection detail between to panels of glass on the exterior of the building.
A water feature out infront of the Shaw Center. Justin was dared to jump over the fountains when they were not spurting water, but, unfortunately he timed it wrong and got drenched.
We had lunch at Poor Boys Llyods. They had great rootbeer floats.