Hennen Building

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The Maritime Building
General information
Type	Residential & Commercial
Location	800 Common Street New Orleans, LA United States
Coordinates	29°57′09″N 90°04′17″W / 29.95250°N 90.07139°W / 29.95250; -90.07139Coordinates: 29°57′09″N 90°04′17″W / 29.95250°N 90.07139°W / 29.95250; -90.07139
Completed	1895
Height
Antenna spire	N/A
Roof	158 feet (48 m)
Technical details
Floor count	11
Floor area	Residences & Commercial: 486,692 square feet (45,215 m2)
Design and construction
Architect

The Hennen Building, also known as the Canal-Commercial Building,^[1] Maritime Building,^[2] and briefly the Latter & Blum Building, is an 11-story, 158 feet (48 m)-tall skyscraper in New Orleans, Louisiana USA. A Registered Historic Place, the building is located at 800 Common Street at the uptown lake corner with Carondelet Street, in the New Orleans Central Business District. The building is New Orleans' first and oldest skyscraper, holding the title of the city's tallest building from 1895-1904.

The building was sold in November 2006 to architect/developer Marcel Wisznia. Historically an office building, in September 2009, Wisznia | Architecture + Development initiated the renovation and conversion into a mixed-use building with two floors of commercial space below 105 luxury apartments, known as The Maritime Apartments. Wisznia utilized both state and federal historic tax credits along with new markets tax credits to realize the project, as part of the revitalization of the New Orleans' Central Business District.

The building was sold to Orange Lake Resorts in March 2019. The property was converted into timeshares and branded as Holiday Inn Club Vacations New Orleans Resort, which opened in December 2020.

Location[]

800 Common Street
New Orleans, LA

See also[]

• List of tallest buildings in New Orleans

References[]

External links[]

• The Maritime

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