Quelle Horreur!

From our favorite badmansard enthusiast in New Orleans, Karen Gadbois. According to the comments in Flickr, this is (or used to be) a Popeye's. And it would appear that lava rock or some other type of landscape rock was used in the facade. Now St. Louis has its fair share of badmansards and Popeye's chicken, but I have never seen anything like this.

I admit to liking this color combination

Another from our friend Karen Gadbois in New Orleans. I've always kind of liked turquoise blue and red together.

Do you think this was at one time a franchise restaurant , like a Jack in the Box or KFC?

New Orleans saint

Here's a mansard in New Orleans with a Saints color scheme. Congratulations to New Orleans.

New Orleans mansard avec vert trim

Another from New Orleans' Karen Gadbois, my source for awesomely bad mansards. Here's what makes this house especially bad mansarded:

• The greenish trim
• How the roof looks like a 7 year old girl who has cut her own bangs
• The bizarre mansard love triangle between the doors and balcony.

Mansard de l'électricité

Oui, this is a mansard protective covering of an electrical substation in the Hollygrove neighborhood of New Orleans. Merci graduate etudiant Matthieu!

Zut alors! Part deux.

Here's another from New Orleans, courtesy of Karen Gadbois at Squandered Heritage.

I've never seen another mansard with inverted columns and frosted glass windows.

Mansard de Orleans Nouveau!

Mes amies de Saint Louis!  Jump on a bateau and let's paddle down the Mississippi to visit New Orleans.  Thanks to Karen Gadbois who provided me with bad mansard pix around New Orleans.  She writes a great blog Squandered Heritage, CLICK HERE, about New Orlean's architecture and the struggles of post-Katrina rehabilitation and demolition.  

Karen labeled this home 'mansard with wings.'  A perfect description.  This house is the bulky maxipad of architecture.  I'm not sure there's another house like this anywhere in America.