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Marlyville/ Fontainebleau Neighborhood Snapshot

Census 2000 Data Tables: People & Household Characteristics, Housing & Housing Costs, Income & Poverty, Transportation, Employment, Educational Attainment, Immigration & Language, Disabilities, Neighborhood Characteristics

Almost entirely residential, Marlyville/Fontainebleau is like a suburb within New Orleans.

When was Marlyville/Fontainebleau first developed?

The Marlyville/Fontainebleau neighborhood was originally included in the Carrollton territory annexed to New Orleans, but development in this area occurred long after the annexation. Its unique physical features contributed to the delayed growth and influenced the land use pattern of the Marlyville/Fontainebleau neighborhood.

Railroad tracks of the Illinois Central and Louisiana and Arkansas lines were located in the adjacent neighborhoods and their blighting influence discouraged settlement in most of the area bounded by S. Claiborne Avenue, Carrollton Avenue, Pontchartrain Boulevard and the Monticello Canal until the 1920s. The Marlyville/Fontainebleau neighborhood was also affected by the convergence of Earhart Boulevard, Melpomene Avenue, Toledano Avenue and Nashville Avenue in one small area of the neighborhood. This factor contributed to the irregular street patterns that exist in parts of this neighborhood.

While most of Carrollton was developed by 1927, the Marlyville/Fontainebleau neighborhood contained substantial amounts of vacant land until much later. Finally, by 1949, much of the area was developed. The neighborhood’s residential pattern was largely a mixture of single and two family dwellings, except for two small areas with single-family dwellings with some larger and grander homes. The 1976 Land Use Survey showed that the land use trends of the 1940s had continued with no significant changes.


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	Notre Dame Seminary.

Today, Marlyville Fontainebleau is still a mixture of single and two family residences with commercial development along S. Claiborne Avenue and S. Carrollton Avenue. The only industrial use of this neighborhood is along Earhart Boulevard.

It is still a lovely neighborhood that is well maintained and convenient to Tulane and Loyola Universities. One resident shared, “I feel like it’s a suburb of New Orleans. You can tell you’re in New Orleans, you have the tile street names on the corners and you’re close to everything. But you’ve got yards and trees, and kids running around.”

The Catholic Church is the only large institution

The Catholic Church owns substantial land and buildings in this neighborhood. On a particularly large tract of land there’s the Notre Dame Seminary. In the neighborhood there are also two large catholic schools -- St. Mary's Dominican High School and St. Rita School – and the Archdiocese’s administrative offices.

Archdiocese of New Orleans web site
www.archdiocese-no.org/main.html
Read about their tremendous number of ministries, services and activities

St Mary’s Dominican High School
www.stmarysdominican.org
Read about the school, admissions, student activities, parent involvement and more.

Sources

Neighborhood Profiles Project Document prepared by the City of New Orleans Office of Policy Planning and the City Planning Commission. Published December 1980. Study available at the Williams Research Center (non-circulating collection).

McNulty Ian. “Leafy byways, architectural vigor define slice of town.” New Orleans City Business. March 11, 2002.

Other resources

Fontainebleau Improvement Association
members.cox.net/fontainebleau/

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