Architecture, CORNSTALK FENCE, GARDEN DISTRICT, NEW ORLEANS
This splendid wrought iron cornstalk fence was reputedly ordered in the 1850s by owner Colonel Robert Henry Short, a native of Kentucky, to appease his wife, who was pining for the cornfields of Iowa. The fence was built by the New Orleans branch of the Philadelphia foundry, and is located on Fourth Street in the New Orleans Garden District. Another cornstalk fence surrounds the Cornstalk Hotel on Royal Street in the French Quarter. A third fence was moved from a demolished New Orleans mansion to California. A more recent owner of Colonel Short’s house claims that the cornstalk fence was ordered simply because it was the most expensive item in the supplier’s catalog.
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