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New Orleans apartment building was born from an 1880s yellow fever epidemic
Summer in New Orleans, it is fair to say, isn’t the kindest of seasons. There is the heat. There are the mosquitoes. There is the near-constant tropical threat of The Big One . But as difficult as summers in New Orleans can be today, they are nothing …