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Calliope Street

Intersection of Calliope St. and Prytania Ave Intersection of Prytania and Calliope located in Downtown, New Orleans
Namesake	Greek Muse of epic poetry, Calliope
Maintained by	City of New Orleans Department of Public Works (https://www.nola.gov/dpw/)
Length	0.9 mi (1.4 km)
Coordinates	29.945112, -90.077935
West end	Loyola Ave.
East end	Convention Center Blvd.
Construction
Commissioned	1852
Construction start	1853
Completion	1853

Calliope Street (/kaeliop/) or (CAL-ee-ope) a street in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Running through both Gert Town and B.W. Cooper uptown neighborhoods, the majority of the street resides in Downtown New Orleans, as part of the Central Business District, or CBD. The street is walking distance from many of New Orleans's main attractions that intake hundreds or thousands of tourists every year.

History

In its earlier days, Calliope Street was a part of the original boundary streets that surrounded the Calliope Projects. These streets included Erato Street, South Prieur and South Dorgenois Street, which all still have their original names. While the street has been divided into portions among both the Gert Town and Central City neighborhoods, today's renounced Earhart Boulevard was originally all of Calliope Street. The name change took place in 1952, as an ordinance was called for this change to occur between S.Salcedo Street and S.Rampart Street. After 1954, the boulevard portion of the Earhart Expressway took place and now connects all the previous mentioned New Orleans neighborhoods, to the Harahan area.

Adrien de Pauger was the designer behind the outline of New Orleans streets, which he began in 1721. As far Calliope street, he named it after the Greek Muse of epic poetry, Calliope. However, a portion of the street was changed to John Churchill Chase in 1990. Many New Orleanians weren't too fond of living on streets named after 'Pagan Mythology", causing them to create new pronunciations that are now embedded within the unique New Orleans native language and lingual.

Calliope Projects

The Calliope Projects, also called the B.W. Cooper Public Housing Development, was one of the many housing developments throughout the City of New Orleans. As mentioned before, the original borders of the project were South Dorgenois, South Prieur, Erato, and Calliope, which is now Earhart Boulevard. The CP3 and the rest of the 3rd Ward neighborhoods were home too many famous individuals, such as Master P and Juvenile. The CP3 was also known for being one of the most violent neighborhoods, in the city, having a record of extremely high crime rates.

B.W. Cooper aka Calliope Projects

Today

The extension of the Earhart Expressway that resides in New Orleans is now Earhart Boulevard, and has caused Calliope Street to be narrowed down into portions of the street, across Gert Town, and Uptown. The Gert Town portion of Calliope Street, between the renounce Norman C. Francis parkway and South Rendon St., resides behind Xavier University, and the Coca Cola Bottling Co. From here, Calliope Street resumes back in the CBD.

Geography

Calliope Street is located at 29.945112, -90.077935, in Downtown, New Orleans. It also marks the point at which Earhart Boulevard begins, as it intersects with Loyola Ave. From the Loyola Ave. intersection, Calliope Street stretched 0.9 miles down the CBD, intersecting with other major New Orleans streets such as Tchoupitoulas and Saint Charles. Calliope Street comes to an end at the intersection with Convention Center Blvd., which is home to the New Orleans Morial Convention Center.

References

Category:New Orleans Category:Streets in New Orleans