Flagpole installation inNew Orleans, LA

Flagpoles in New Orleans

A hospitality and port city of hotels, restaurants, hospitals and offices, built low on soft delta ground, with local historic districts covering much of the frontage people want a flag on. We cover New Orleans and the Orleans Parish area, including the French Quarter and Jackson Square, the Central Business District and Canal Street, the Warehouse District, the Garden District and St. Charles Avenue, Uptown with Tulane and Loyola, Mid-City, Marigny and Bywater, the Port of New Orleans and the Lakefront.

Wind here. New Orleans sits in a delta-coastal and hurricane-exposed area, which works out to roughly 145 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. The French Quarter answers to the Vieux Carre Commission and the rest of the local districts answer to the Historic District Landmarks Commission, and neither lets a permit through without a certificate of appropriateness first. Then there is the ground. Soft clay and peat over a high water table, a great deal of the city at or below sea level, and settlement still going on, so the footing is designed for the spot and on the softer lots it lands on piles. The adopted figure, about 145 mph, sits just under the highest flag-flying rating Eder publishes, so we size to the number for the address and do not call a stock pole a pass. Salt arrives off the lake and up the river, which settles the finish before anyone asks: anodized, with stainless or bronze.

Most of the people who call us from New Orleans are hotels and restaurants, hospitals and medical buildings, law and shipping offices, churches, universities and private schools, funeral homes, city facilities and historic-district homeowners.