Longue Vue

Recognized as a National Historic Landmark, the Longue Vue home and gardens was born of the dreams of Edgar and Edith Stern, pillars of the New Orleans community. It is the combination of the Sterns working with landscape architect Ellen ...

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 ...

Old Absinthe House

This commercial building was constructed in 1806 by Pedro Front and Francisco Juncadelia, immigrants from Barcelona Spain. These brothers operated the building as a storefront for their trade business for the next 40 years.

Local legend states that the second floor ...

Gallier House and Museum

In 1857, esteemed New Orleans architect, James Gallier, Jr., put his considerable talent to work designing a residence of his own. GALLIER HOUSE is an outstanding example of accurate and comprehensive historic restoration of one of New Orleans' loveliest and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mount Pilgrim African Baptist Church

The Mount Pilgrim African Baptist Church was organized in 1866 by blacks that left the First Baptist Church.

This 1916 building is an excellent example of Gothic Revival architecture designed by Wallace A. Rayfield, a leading African American architect in ...

New Providence Missionary Baptist Church (Bagdad Museum Complex)

This church is among the oldest in Santa Rosa County. Carpenters who were sons of the pastor, the Rev. John Kelker, Sr., built the original church.

The current wood frame vernacular structure was built in 1901. Moved to its present ...