Administration Building's Second Floor
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The second floor housed Orleans Levee Board offices, a balcony featuring Gonzalez's paintings, and hotel rooms for pilots. Amelia Earhart stayed overnight here during her final flight in 1937.
Abe Shushan Collection, Earl K. Long Library
This file appears in: A Thing of Beauty: Shushan Airport's Administration Building
A Thing of Beauty: Shushan Airport's Administration Building
The art deco administration building epitomized a fine combination of form and function. Not simply a place for travelers to wait for their flights, the airport allowed white New Orleanians to relax…