Lakefront "Seawall"

What the fill made possible was a neighborhood. The Orleans Levee Board began the reclamation in the 1920s, dredging soil from the lake and building a seawall, and the Works Progress Administration carried the work through the Depression. Around 1939 Lake Vista was laid out in the Garden City style as one superblock, with arterial streets around it, cul-de-sacs inside and a separate network of pedestrian lanes meeting at the center. A planned school was never built. Most of the houses date to after World War II, and the lakefront mostly avoided the worst of Katrina's flooding.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Congo Square — 5.3 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 5.3 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.
• The Cabildo — 5.6 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 5.6 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.

More markers nearby

• New Basin Canal — steps away
• Fort St. John (Spanish Fort) — 1.8 mi
• Beatles Only Concert Performance in Louisiana — 2.6 mi
• Duelling Grounds — 3.0 mi