Blakeview: D.H. Holmes was a holiday shopping mainstay in New Orleans for more than a century

This Christmas week, we remember the 175th anniversary of a mainstay of the Canal Street holiday shopping scene for more than a century: D.H. Holmes. Daniel Henry Holmes opened his four-story flagship store in the 800 block of Canal in October 1849. Holmes was an Ohio native who came to…

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