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[@sidibill]

Not sure if this is going to be a trend in your videos, but I'm all for it. Someone who really knows about building techniques talking about historic American buildings is great. Beside the outside I would like to see how the buildings were actually put together. I have traveled a bit in Europe and when everyone is admiring the outside I always wanted to go into the attic to see what holds up the roof. Thanks for all your videos.

[@dosadoodle]

Brent puts historic building videos out ~weekly on his channel (search "Brent Hull"), so that's also a good place if you're looking for more content in this vein beyond what shows up on Matt's channel.

[@malonlabe8806]

If I knew what I know now, I would have taken so much from the houses I demoed back in the 80’s and 90’s in New England and stored it away. We tossed so much good stuff in dumpsters and we just ripped and sledged our way around these houses. It hurts my heart to know what we did to amazing historical and old wood architecture.

[@JamieE76]

The cute buildings you saw on Magazine St are shotgun style, I believe. I think the Garden District is the most beautiful neighborhood in New Orleans, but you have to get off St. Charles Ave. That is where most of the newer apartment buildings are located. If you go deeper into the neighborhood, then you will see blocks after blocks of old historic homes and the occasional old cemetery.

[@piggly-wiggly]

Exactly. St. Charles has become so patchwork that, while you can see super elegant huge homes, they're too interrupted by the modern stuff. Just get off of St. Charles toward Magazine. Prytania is a nice sweet spot of elegance without so much modern in-fill. But the smaller homes have just as much charm on a more human scale.

[@bbordelon2]

Thanks for your video of our city. We love it here, albeit all its bumps and bruises.

[@williamjensen7042]

Kinda let me down by not answering Matts questions in the Quarter. He didnt even mention the 1780s fire that destroyed 80% of the city and thats why the buildings went from the old wooden French style homes to the new brick ones. He didnt even mention that virtually the entire Quarter is Spanish colonial and that after the fire the Spanish governor mandated brick. All the "balconies" Matt asked about were Moorish influences on the Spanish style. He also didnt mention that the new Americans coming to NOLA were not welcome in Creole aristicratic society and those cultural differences are why the garden district was built at all. He did shine when it came to the Victorian period at the Bank, that knowlege was inpressive. Fun fact, one of the first Spanish Governors of the Louisiana Spanish colony was an Irishman named O'Rielly who was working with the Spanish military.

[@CGPhotos]

Streetcar not trolley! Thanks for visiting :)

[@Dreadlock1227]

Architecture tours are the most underrated thing to do while you’re traveling, it’s always so interesting, especially in cities with unique architecture! I’ve done them in San Francisco, Montreal, Quebec City, Barcelona, Melbourne, Boston, and Hanoi. Never have been disappointed

[@disposabull]

In the UK we still have a lot of wrought\cast iron suppliers for railing work. F H Brundle has a huge list of structural and decorative wrought iron components for custom work or restoration.

[@shanathomas8581]

Ship building has always been big business in the area. Makes for great iron work artist.

[@ewetoobblowzdogg8410]

I'm a 40 year craftsman that lives just outside of NOLA. Have worked there many times over the years. Oldest place I've ever worked on was built in 1802. Fun stuff

[@FrJohnBrownSJ]

Welcome to NOLA! Go see Immaculate Conception Church!

[@busterdickerson8725]

Cafe Pontalba! Just had breakfast there on Sunday after my Rebs lost to Baylor. Fantastic Benedict and Steak & Eggs.

[@shayd1984triton]

At 15:55 the molding is easy to spot. That ceiling needs to be spread with paint stripper.

[@ewetoobblowzdogg8410]

I used to work down on Bourbon long before Katrina. It was an adult playground filled with voodoo shops, palm readers, strip bars and head shops. After the storm, it all became commercial bullshyte filled with tshirts and coffee cup crap. Gone are the good ol days...

[@jaysson1151]

There’s a reason why they painted the porch ceilings sky blue, it’s to confuse wasps into thinking it’s the open sky and keep them from building nests under the porch.

[@jpbiscaro8694]

Thank you for covering this topic

[@robbiedw1495]

Absolutely loved this. Thanks for sharing!

[@jaysson1151]

OH MY GOD! You’re a in New Orleans!! Now you know what a shotgun house is! I’ve been watching your channel since 2011!

[@joshualukinovich1838]

Were y’all able to see the house by Ken Tate on St Charles Ave? It’s a MASTERPIECE

[@IslenoGutierrez]

Actually the oldest part of the city is the Faubourg St. John along Bayou St. John in mid-city. It’s circa 1708. The Vieux Carré (French Quarter) was founded in 1718. I’m a born and raised New Orleanian of colonial Louisiana descent (a colonial descended Louisianian of any race or ancestry that was born in Louisiana is called Creole). I know my city.

[@johnfithian-franks8276]

Hi, may I wish a great year to come in 2022 to you and your family. I have loved your videos from 2021 and look forward to the videos to come in 2022

[@aaronmillon3620]

I like how he said ,"the help lived in the back". Slave, call it what it was.

[@IslenoGutierrez]

Well that’s what the slaves were, the help. He called it what it was.

[@oldworldchris4187]

I love Nola old houses, and I liked the Bank, I'l check that out next time I"m there!

[@rhyswilliams695]

That was really interesting. Thanks Matt.

[@jaysson1151]

Glad to know about Brent. I’d like a build a new house that looks really old. I wonder if he builds on the North Shore.

[@davidcolley273]

Picardie Timber Frame + Millwork in New Orleans. We can make all that moulding a and doors. We specialize on historic preservation and restoration of that architecture.

[@HyperactiveNeuron]

Very, very interesting. New Orleans had always been on my bucket list. Of course I would be going mostly for food, music and fun but ya know LOL

[@lynnew5619]

Really enjoyed this video. Thanks. 👍

[@JoshuaScalf]

Hit me up next time you are in New Orleans. I can bring you on some historic rebuild job sites.

[@R900DZ]

Great video , thanks!

[@shayd1984triton]

Interesting bucket drummers in new Orleans. They have them in Chicago. I'm not sure if that concept was brought down from the north, or the reverse.

[@scottfortune9016]

Great video. I would love to travel the US and see the old buildings. Especially with Brent so I can learn as I go. Lol

[@mra77009]

Brent needs to learn. Much of the information he is giving is historically incorrect.

[@DriverDude100]

Great video! Thank you.

[@MrTexasDan]

Both guys trying like hell not to mention what was being traded in the 1850s and what made those merchants rich.

[@rmf1682]

Referral “the help” doesn’t help. There’s a more accurate word for that.

[@IslenoGutierrez]

But their are not trying to dodge anything like that, they are making an architectural video…not a history video.

[@IslenoGutierrez]

@@rmf1682Actually the slaves were the help, so he used a good word to describe them.

[@Mortimer_Duke]

Chicago because of the Illinois River and Cincinnatti because of the Ohio.

[@dgrayman6637]

I wish Brent would have worn a lav mic or something for more consistent audio.

[@rexg1960]

Great video, Thx!

[@Foche_T._Schitt]

11:15 Villa Vici Also possibly hit by a few delivery trucks.

[@pmmahone1]

Irish Channel has a lot of traditional New Orleans architecture. Shotgun shacks, camel back additions, etc.

[@fredericrike5974]

The "other one" was called Katrina. Katrina made the sixth time NO had been run over and seriously damaged by a hurricane since founding in 1708 or so by the explorers Ibberville and Bienville, IIRC, anyway. In that same period the city has burned, some of it, to the ground- old wooden houses make good tender. And that is why the odd mix of building dates and styles. FR

[@Chris_Moncada]

“The other one”, Lol.

[@fredericrike5974]

@@Chris_Moncada First, I guess I should say, I'm a retired construction dog- plumber for everything from residential to multi story high rise, hospitals and specialty mfg facilities. Brett, within his world is brilliant- hands down. I was bagging him because he is such a font of facts and history as it relates to architecture, and he only mentions Irma and "the other one", when weather history, much like SF's Great Earthquake, has shaped New Orleans architecture as much as the politics of several kingdoms, autocracies and nascent democracies. Fire and flood, for 300+ years have stalked New Orleans history. They talked about all the triple thick, structural brick- but no comment on why build that heavy on soft, sedimentary soils? With bricks made of clay, not found real close to NO. BTW, I also grew up in New Orleans- left a very long time ago because of poor job opportunities then and and only went back to visit. In much of that New Orleans, you could walk around an hug architecture from well before the Revolution through the Civil War and into today; history lives in the bits and pieces that survived those many storms and left places to build new among the old. A note; few building codes in the US are stricter than those on the books in the Vieux Carre (French Quarter spelled in French) over the last fifty years or so- but the system is a bit corrupt and has been for about three hundred years. St. Petersburg, in Florida, is one of the few cities in America older than NO- and only by a few years. FR

[@csvscs]

Come to Charleston SC

[@csvscs]

Come to Charleston SC and roast/ tell me what to fix here!

[@Vaticider69]

Great show... Beware the Vampire....

[@TrentonGauthier]

Had to skip through and make sure you didn't critique my house or any of my projects before I could relax and enjoy the video!

[@ARPLATINUM]

Cafe dumond is a bit overrated, in my opinion. I always thought Cafe Beignet has been better.

[@versatile3373]

I hope you get the chance to take some inspiration from New Orleans into a project

[@ryan519841]

Are you putting content on the build show network youtube anymore??

[@TripleIllini]

lol at Matt's wife looking like a pack mule at the beginning. We've all seen how soft he is so it's no surprise when you see who does the heavy lifting 🤣

[@stormagorist6129]

Probably mildew not mold.. feeding off of old latex paint

[@billk8780]

When my wife and I were in Europe, she could not understand why I was constantly taking photographs of doors, door knockers, windows, manhole covers, etc. Oh, I'd take an occasional one of her, too.

[@quacktony]

What?!? You were in New Orleans?!?!

[@rowdy5285]

Matt we're building a new house in Knoxville TN. Is there any reason why I shouldn't use close cell spray foam in the attic ceiling?

[@thevitutus]

Is there a reason to use it in a new building to begin with? I dont understand why you would want to ruin your new house.

[@ajbeck2121]

In a warm humid climate, do totally encapsulated unvented roof line with open cell. You must condition the attic space. AC & Dehumidification.

[@av1204]

walking encyclopedia for buildings

[@justatim8143]

They paint the porch under sides with lite blue paint to keep evil spirits away.

[@aaronmillon3620]

My comment of the iron workers,(slaves), came from Savanah, Georgia was removed so here it is again. TRUE THAT.

[@LTD_Outdoors]

Yep. But that was a long time ago, so let’s stop dwelling on it.

[@IslenoGutierrez]

@@LTD_OutdoorsI know right

[@IslenoGutierrez]

The iron workers were not only slaves. They were also working class whites, free people of color (mulattoes) and yes, also black slaves.

[@T_157-40]

Does Brent have knowledge to build Tuscan Architecture barns and homes?

[@dangerdan03]

Cafe du Monde in Metairie isn't that packed.

[@IslenoGutierrez]

Tourists don’t what to go to Metairie, it looks like anytown USA

[@Binkley-rj6gf]

S/H/B "with My Buddy Brent Hull & Me". Always "with . . . Me", never "with . . . I".

[@tammyspringtime]

Excuse me but New Orleans is Creole, not Cajun , everybody know that !

[@ajbeck2121]

Yall crazy bruh.. Forget the face mask, better get some body armor on...

[@amhtelrev4808]

Hey. Im looking for a youtube channel that explains the basic logics and whys of construction and home renovation for beginners. Does anyone of you know of any good tutors like that, for dummys, on youtube?

[@aaronmillon3620]

The slave iron workers came from Savanah Georgia .

[@IslenoGutierrez]

Enough with the slave stuff already. It’s just an architectural video.

[@johngrimble3050]

What stopped the Victorian wood work era?

[@rigo6156]

They seem bromantically involved.

[@BanBiofuels]

It's good to see lots of people walking around without masks.

[@AlexMurilloh23]

* Recorded on an iPhone Potato *

[@shayd1984triton]

You aren't the first person to complain about modern art. Look up Paul Joseph Watson. The epoch times had an article about how perverse it's become.

[@ronbrown1202]

Time for a sequel! This time, talk about the individual people who built these homes and how they made their money and the people who built these houses, all conspicuously absent from this show.

[@lindseyadams1718]

organ pipe

[@mra77009]

Much of the information and dates that these guys are giving is INCORRECT!!!! There are NO STRUCTURES still standing in New Orleans from 1720s. Madam John's Legacy dates to 1788, after the fire of 1788. If you're going to do a video, please give correct information. Take a New Orleans history course!! Oldest building in New Orleans (still standing) was built 1745 to 1752, and that is the Ursuline convent. I cringe when people call the streetcar a "trolley" Here in New Orleans, we use the word STREETCAR!!!!

[@michaelm6819]

Be a lot cooler if it was raised a few stories, better than a bowl imo

[@TripleIllini]

interesting to watch these dudes talk about all this history but terrified to mention the impact of slavery on nearly everything they are talking about. when describing one of the houses he even mentions behind the house you had a courtyard, then stables and behind that is where "your help" was. he is, of course, talking about the slave quarters. i regret to inform you they weren't so ornate and architecturally significant. he talks about the wealth that came from the sugar and cotton trade but not the slave trade which made the previous two possible. the rich merchants he mentions were working for plantation owners in moving their products and slaves. much of the wealth of antebellum louisiana and prior came on the backs of slave labor. not sure why you'd be so excited to discuss the history involved but so afraid of that part.

[@philiplacey5430]

I agree - somewhat. It's obvious the wealth in NO was a result of slave labor - I was thinking about it as I watched. But the social construct of the era isn't the subject. It would have been better to at least acknowledge the fact though.

[@TripleIllini]

@@philiplacey5430 yeah, i'm not saying it needed to be the focus of the video or anything. there were just several points where it was a clear part of the answer to a question asked and it was like they intentionally danced around it for some reason. the first time i didn't think anything of it and then it happened again and again and pretty soon he's talking about "your help" that lives out back. and by the end of the video i'm all wtf why is this the forbidden topic. it's reality.

[@bobschumacher5973]

@@TripleIllini KZbin does not allow the teaching of CRT

[@TripleIllini]

@@bobschumacher5973 based on some comments i'm seeing, however, it does allow imbeciles that were left behind in high school math and science to comment on things they know nothing about.

[@aaronmillon3620]

I truly enjoy your show Matt, but this tour of New Orleans without a single reference or mention of slavery was very awkward. I'm a black New Orleans resident. My family were carpenters from the 1690's.

[@willbass2869]

NEWS FLASH:: Slavery ended 150+ years ago. No one you know nor anyone they knew was a slave. Stop dancing in the graves of dead people who probably had more character than to whine like you. Fyi.... I've watched this channel for years. Matt ain't never mentioned the natives Americans who lived in area of Austin that I can recall. Get over yourself.

[@aaronmillon3620]

@@willbass2869 did I strike a nerve bill.

[@TripleIllini]

@@willbass2869 the last people born as legal slaves are thought to have died in the early 70s. there are people alive today whose parents were slaves. and a huge number whose grandparents were. not exactly the ancient past. for anyone who knows the history it was an obvious part of the discussion at several points in the video and seems to have been intentionally danced around for some reason. maybe it actually was discussed and edited out? if so, it was a bad choice as it made the discussion more awkward to leave it out than to simply acknowledge the truth. "your help" was lol-worthy the last few lines of your comment are unintelligible drivel. if you've got some examples when native americans were a part of the discussion but awkwardly left out of the video feel free to identify them.

[@YSLRD]

@@TripleIllini Maybe, since this is a fun trip, there was no need to dwell on past darkness. We don't want to erase the past. We still don't have to rub our noses into every painful part. A related theory: if certain people would acknowledge but de- emphasize slavery, maybe our young people would heal and not have to carry that pain to the next generation.

[@TripleIllini]

@@YSLRD i'm not sure what dwelling and nose rubbing you're talking about. i'm just saying when he talks about the slave quarters behind the stables he not call it where 'your help" is. and when asked about who would have built a house like this he say something like "a rich merchant who worked as an agent for nearby plantation owners". these things wouldn't change anything about the video except make it less awkward and more accurate. your theory seems like a reasonable enough idea. i don't claim to have all the answers. i'm not asking for a soliloquy on the wrongs of racism here. just an acknowledgment when it fits into the discussion at hand rather than it being the most awkward elephant in the room for a 30 minute video. it'd be about like making a video about what pearl harbor was like in the 40s and not mentioning painful events of 12/7/41 that will define it forevermore. or standing in dealey plaza and pointing out the nice, grassy, green space alongside elm st with no further elaboration. of course these are things that nobody would ever make a video and try to ignore. but slavery...

[@martinp1544]

I’ve been to “Nawlins” hundreds of times. Mainly The French Quarter, Bourbon, Royal & Canal streets. Historic Yes. Beautiful? Sorry No. Matt leaves out the smell of vomit, urine, raw sewage, stale spilled alcohol.

[@aayotechnology]

14:50 wow, like Matt knows what good design is. Please stay in your lane, builder friend

[@philiplacey5430]

I liked that building!

[@aayotechnology]

@@philiplacey5430 me too. But I take his criticism with a grain of salt after watching the architectural hodgepodge he created for his family