Faculty Member John Seefeldt completes Fazendeville project with the National Parks Service
John Seefedlt created a 3D model of the Black American community of Fazendeville听that was demolished in the late 1960s in order to disenfranchise the community during desegregation. Fazendeville was located on land that had been a portion of the battlefield of The Battle of New Orleans, between the Chalmette National Cemetery and the Chalmette monument.
In 1854 the land was listed as part of the succession of Jean Pierre Fazende, a 鈥渇ree man of color鈥, and was inherited by his son of the same name. At the end of the American Civil听War the younger Fazende divided what had been agricultural land into lots and sold them to recently freed slaves.听The black community was started by 1867, with the Battle Ground Baptist Church established on April 16, 1868.
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The self-contained community had its own general stores, a one-room schoolhouse which taught first through eighth grades, two benevolent societies and the Battle Ground Baptist听Church. The main street was Fazendeville Road, which ran from St. Bernard Highway to the River Road which formerly ran along the base of the Mississippi levee.
The community ended in 1964 when the St. Bernard Parish Government expropriated the rights to the land for expansion of the park around the battlefield site.听More than 50 families were forced to relocate when the National Park Service obtained the land. Fazendeville Road was closed on 24 November 1964 and the demolition of听Fazendeville was completed in 1966.听Some of those families relocated to the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, and built a new 鈥淏attleground Baptist Church鈥 there in 1964.
This model depicts the Fazendeville community before demolition in the early听1960鈥檚. It was created for display in the National Park Services Chalmette Battlefield听visitors center. The model was developed using black and white aerial and ground听based survey photographs taken in the early 1960鈥檚. The photographs were taken as听part of a campaign to annex and remove the African American community. The model was 3D printed using durable plastic and designed to fit inside a travel case allowing for easy transportation for offsite educational outreach. 听The travel case was听constructed using 3D printed plastic components and wax sealed wooden panels. When displayed on the platform the model is 45鈥 wide, 7鈥 deep and 2.5鈥 tall.
2017
3d Printed Plastic, Wood, Paper, Wax
Displayed Model 45鈥硍 听7鈥砫 听2.5鈥砲
Travel Case 6鈥硍 6鈥砫 13.5鈥砲
Design, 3D Modeling & Fabrication:
John Seefeldt
3D Modeling Assistant:
Kelly McMahon
Research, Source Material & Support:
Naomi Yavneh Klos, Ph.D.
Stanley Yavneh Klos
Research Assistant:
Michael D. Pashkevich
Funding and Support:
黑料社区:
University Honors Program
& Department of Design