Algiers Point Apartment Above The Former Shoe Store Is Good For The Artist

Back to the era where you'll find dozens of saloons in Algiers, the various dry docks, railways and many other companies, the building was home to a shoe.

It is not clear how old the building, but its brick facade and wrought iron, the most typical of the French Quarter and Central Business District, suggests that it is probably older than many of the Algiers Point house, built after the fire of 1895.
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Zabler feel lucky to live there, most of their time at home out on the porch, and he describes the move.

"I always wanted to see this place out since I moved here."

Some friends were looking for a new place and Zable heard a neighbor to tell them about this opportunity on the shoe store.

"I said," Well, if you are not interested, I'll at least go to see out. "So I did, and loved it."

Shoebox Memories: many of the shod foot was on the roof of an old building, at the end of 1800.

Book by Richard Remy Dixon, former Algiers "includes a notice in the Herald of Algiers" from August 2, 1893, by F. Renecky and Bro. Boots and shoes in Valletta and the place of Patterson.

"Many of the neighbors, who remember the days in which they obtained the shoes here, Zabler said.

"My mother took me there," said Edward Alger Swett. "She took me to get a pair of shoes, and I raised hell and cried and cried until I'm a little things that make them OK. Survey-Parrot shoes. It was the shoe brand. They had a picture of a parrot them. "

Poll-Parrot has been a competitor of Buster Brown shoes and tin toys were some of the tricks of the company, with the radio program for children in the 1930's. The remote controls were favored Swett tin toys.

In early 1950, looks like a shoe store was gone, probably long gone. Since then, the building has been housing association, at the same time, the home of the then U.S. Rep. Bob Livingston and his family, the new apartment, sometimes the artist's studio or on the lower floor of the gallery.

However, many locals call the shoe store, or simply "Renecky."

Dance Hall Days: apartment Zable, who was on the floor of the old shoe store, was once Renecky Hall. The investigation of Algiers said historian Kevin Herrera dances are held at the end of the century at least until 1916, with music by the likes of Professor Higgins JPV Saunfield Orchestra and Orchestra.

Renecky Hall is also a list of 1919 Great Lodges of the International Association of Machinists and, according to records of Dixon, was at home in the meetings of the Locomotive Firemen and Engineers.

Dixon "Old Algiers" presents a picture of Henry Renecky and other entrepreneurs are also relatively low bank in front of the building, the observation of increased flood waters of 1922. The book describes it as "familiar with the shoe and the general Algerines Old Emporium."

"Many non-governmental organizations and political meetings were held Renecky Hall also famous for the wallpaper and floor excellent," the book says.

Fortunately, the walls are a little less flashy now. best features of the apartment is a large room that spans the facade of the building with large windows overlooking the river, hardwood floors and a large gallery with wrought iron lace around the apartment.