Madame John's Legacy House

Madame John's Legacy is one of the finest 18th century building complexes in Louisiana. Of special interest because it escaped the great fire of 1795, which leveled much of New Orleans, the house is actually a product of the preceding ...

National Historic Landmark - Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop

Built sometime between 1722 and 1732, this building is reputed to be the oldest structure used as a bar in the United States.

The structure and fence are in the old French Provincial Louis XV or Briquette-Entre-Poteauxe style used in ...

National Historic Landmark - New Orleans Mint

Now serving the community as a historical museum, the New Orleans Mint struck over 427 million gold and silver coins during its 70 years of operation.

Antebellum New Orleans was a bustling city on the rise and its location near ...

Fouche House

The Fouche House is a classic example of French Creole style urban architecture. Following a series of destructive fires in the late 18th century, the city of New Orleans began closely regulating how structures were built in its urban core ...

Charles H. Turner House

Charles Turner, a Pensacola contractor, created this local adaptation of Queen Anne style in 1896 by adding Victorian details to a one-story, hipped-roof cottage. Later he embellished the house with Classical Revival columns and other trim. Three generations of the ...

McCreary House

The McCreary House is a Queen Anne Style home constructed around 1900 for Mr. W. E. McCreary. A native of Pensacola, McCreary trained as an expert machinist and engineer in New York City before returning to Pensacola to establish Creary ...

Moreno Cottage

This quaint, two-room "shotgun" cottage was built in 1870 by prominent local businessman Don Francisco Moreno for his favorite daughter, La Perle, one of the youngest of his 27 children by three wives.

"Shotgun" homes are so-called because they are constructed ...

National Historic Landmark - The Cabildo

The Cabildo stands adjacent to St. Louis Cathedral and was the headquarters for the Spanish Colonial Council, or Cabildo.

The original structure was destroyed during the Great New Orleans Fire of 1788, during which over 75% of the buildings in the ...

National Historic Landmark - French Quarter

The New Orleans French Quarter, also know as the Vieux Carre, is the oldest neighborhood in the city and the second oldest historic district in the country.

In 1718, the French governor of Louisiana, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville established the ...

Jackson Sqaure

Jackson Square, located in the heart of New Orleans was designed by architect Louis H. Pilié, and modeled after the famous Place des Vosges in Paris, France.

The square, known during the colonial era as the Place d' Armes, by the ...