NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Actress Sandra Bullock has purchased a historic mansion with scrolling ironwork in the Garden District of New Orleans — a section of the city bordered by the St. Charles Avenue streetcar line.
The mansion is near properties owned by actors John Goodman and Nicolas Cage and the home previously owned by writer Anne Rice.
Bullock has been a frequent visitor to New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The actress has been a generous supporter of Warren Easton High School, one of Louisiana’s first public high schools, which took on 10 feet of floodwater during Katrina and incurred some $4 million in damages.
Bullock’s donations — of hundreds of thousands of dollars — helped fund scholarships, new band uniforms and renovations of the school auditorium.
 
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