The Hennen Building, also known as the Canal-Commercial Building,[1]Maritime Building,[2] and briefly the Latter & Blum Building, is an 11-story, 158 feet (48 m)-tall skyscraper in New Orleans, Louisiana USA. Individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), the building is located at 800 Common Street at the uptown lake corner with Carondelet Street. It is also NRHP-listed as a contributing building in New Orleans' Central Business District.[3] The building is New Orleans' first and oldest skyscraper, holding the title of the city's tallest building from 1895-1904.
It was built as a 10-story Chicago style skyscraper; the eleventh floor was added in 1922.[4][5]
The building was sold in November 2006 to architect/developer Marcel Wisznia. Historically an office building, in September 2009, Wisznia | Architecture + Development initiated the renovation and conversion into a mixed-use building with two floors of commercial space below 105 luxury apartments, known as The Maritime Apartments. Wisznia utilized both state and federal historic tax credits along with new markets tax credits to realize the project, as part of the revitalization of the New Orleans' Central Business District.[citation needed]
The building was sold to Orange Lake Resorts in March 2019. The property was converted into timeshares and branded as Holiday Inn Club Vacations New Orleans Resort, which opened in December 2020.[citation needed]
^Bankers Magazine. United States, Bradford Rhodes, 1921.
^Reports of the U.S. Board of Tax Appeals. United States, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939.
^John C. Ferguson (June 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Lower Central Business District". National Park Service. Retrieved December 9, 2017. With 27 photos from 1990.
^Louisiana Division of Historic Preservation; Michael Eversmeyer (February 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Hennen Building / Maritime Building". National Park Service. Retrieved December 16, 2022. With accompanying five photos from 1989
^Karen Kingsley and Lake Douglas, "The Maritime (Hennen Building)", [New Orleans, Louisiana], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/LA-02-OR104.
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