But it was built before the war.
Architecture in America may be said to have been born since the war.

New Orleans, I believe, has had the good luck--and in a sense the bad luck-- to have had no great fire in late years.

It must be so.

If the opposite had been the case, I think one would be able to tell the 'burnt district' by the radical improvement in its architecture over the old forms.

One can do this in Boston and Chicago.