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An Apollonaut travel guide
A zoo beside the river.
An introduction to Uptown New Orleans and Audubon Park, where the zoo stands between Magazine Street and the Mississippi.
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Read the city from the park
The zoo is at 6500 Magazine Street, in Audubon Park in Uptown New Orleans, on the river side of the street. The St. Charles Avenue streetcar and RTA buses stop near the park.
A city guide can give context without turning a neighbourhood into a backdrop. Notice how a public park has made room for a zoo for more than a century, and how older structures stand among newer habitats. Respect the people who live and work around it.
A hill built by hand
Monkey Hill was built as part of the zoo’s Depression-era expansion by the Works Progress Administration, alongside new animal houses.
Begin with a detail and ask how it was made, changed and maintained. A photograph alone cannot tell you who built a wall or shaped a hill, or the conditions in which they worked.
An Audubon chapter
The Audubon Zoo shows a city that has kept animals in its park since an exposition in 1884, and rebuilt its zoo in the 1970s.
Look at the meeting of the two: a historic city park and the habitats built within it.
Make room for context
Pair this city reading with the zoo’s history and the Journal. This is an introduction for visitors, not a claim that our team manages these places, commissions their restoration or represents their makers.
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Sources & further reading
Links lead to the original publishers.
