NOTES chapter 3 note 2 A few examples of Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis Sr.'s designs in New Orleans are the garden layout for the New Orleans zoo, 1920s, and the Elephant House and accessory buildings for animals and birds, 1930s. The French farmhouse-style animal buildings were preserved in the 1980s zoo renovation project. Prof. Curtis also designed the American National Bank Building at 200 Carondelet Street, a twenty-three story steel and limestone building in modern step-skyscraper style, 1929, as well as the Flint-Goodridge Hospital at 2425 Louisiana Avenue, in Art Deco style, 1932. The first modern-style American house in the city -- the "new American" home -- built by the Times-Picayune Publishing Company in co-operation with the General Electric Company was designed by Prof. Curtis, 1936. In addition to showing the people of New Orleans what industry and science have achieved in modernizing the home, the building also celebrated the 100th anniversary of the daily newspaper (n.n.a. 1937).