Ponchartrain Apartments

The building at 1350 E. Jefferson exemplifies the change from single family residential structures of the nineteenth century to multi-family moderate scale apartment buildings along E. Jefferson Ave. in the first quarter of the twentieth century.

The Ponchartrain Apartment building is a four-story red brick structure with limestone detailing in the Classical Revival style of the Adams Brothers. The entrance is composed of an arched opening flanked by two ornamental pilasters carrying the lintel. Voussoirs of the first story windows are also limestone, as are the foundations, window sills, coping, and belt course between the first and second stories. The entablature is decorated with swags, festoons, and urns, and the stone relief panels beneath the windows in the end bays also bear urns.