Lafayette Cemetery No. 2: The Forgotten Sister in the Garden District
Lafayette Cemetery No. 2: The Forgotten Sister in the Garden DistrictLafayette Cemetery No. 2 lives in the long shadow of its famous neighbor. While Lafayette No. 1 draws tourists, filmmakers, and ...
St. Louis Cemetery No. 3: The Peaceful One on the Bayou
St. Louis Cemetery No. 3: The Peaceful One on the BayouSt. Louis Cemetery No. 3 is the youngest and least visited of the three St. Louis cemeteries, and that is exactly what makes it special. Estab...
Chalmette National Cemetery: Hallowed Ground on a Battlefield
Chalmette National Cemetery: Hallowed Ground on a BattlefieldChalmette National Cemetery sits on one of the most historically significant pieces of land in the United States—the site of the Battle ...
Mount Olivet Cemetery: The Multicultural Resting Place of Gentilly
Mount Olivet Cemetery: The Multicultural Resting Place of GentillyMount Olivet Cemetery in Gentilly is one of the most culturally diverse burial grounds in New Orleans. Established in 1918, it is y...
Carrollton Cemetery: The Small-Town Graveyard Inside a Big City
Carrollton Cemetery: The Small-Town Graveyard Inside a Big CityCarrollton Cemetery is one of the most charming and least known burial grounds in New Orleans. Established in 1849—when Carrollton was...
Odd Fellows Rest: The Secret Cemetery on Canal Street
Odd Fellows Rest: The Secret CemeteryOdd Fellows Rest is one of the most mysterious cemeteries in New Orleans—a walled burial ground that most people have driven past a thousand times without ever ...
Dispersed of Judah Cemetery: New Orleans’ Jewish Heritage in Stone
Dispersed of Judah Cemetery: New Orleans’ Jewish Heritage in StoneDispersed of Judah Cemetery is one of the most historically significant Jewish burial grounds in the American South. Established in...
Sidney Bechet: The New Orleans Genius Paris Loved More Than America Did
The Genius Who Left New Orleans and Conquered ParisSidney Joseph Bechet was born on May 14, 1897, in the Seventh Ward of New Orleans, into a Creole family of musicians. He was a prodigy — playing c...
Mel Ott: The Gretna Kid Who Hit 511 Home Runs for the Giants
The Gretna Kid Who Hit 511 Home RunsMelvin Thomas Ott was born on March 2, 1909, in Gretna, Louisiana — just across the river from New Orleans, close enough to hear the steamboat whistles and feel ...
Pistol Pete Maravich: The Greatest Show on the Basketball Court
Pistol Pete and the Basketball That Went EverywherePete Maravich wasn't born in New Orleans — he was born in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, in 1947. But New Orleans is where he became "Pistol Pete," and ...
Girod Street Cemetery: The Protestant Graveyard They Paved Over
Girod Street Cemetery: The Protestant Graveyard They Paved OverGirod Street Cemetery no longer exists. Demolished in 1957 to make way for a parking lot and eventually the Superdome complex, it was ...
The Hurricane Katrina Memorial: New Orleans’ Newest City of the Dead
The Hurricane Katrina Memorial: New Orleans’ Newest City of the DeadThe Hurricane Katrina Memorial is the newest and most heartbreaking cemetery in New Orleans. Completed on August 29, 2008—exactly...
St. Patrick Cemetery: The Irish Story Written in Stone
St. Patrick Cemetery: The Irish Story Written in StoneSt. Patrick Cemetery tells one of the great immigration stories of New Orleans—the arrival of the Irish, who came by the tens of thousands in t...
Napoleon Avenue: The Parade Route Dividing Line of Uptown
Napoleon Avenue: The Parade Route Dividing LineNapoleon Avenue is one of the great cross streets of Uptown New Orleans—a wide, oak-canopied boulevard that runs from the river to Broad Street, bisec...
Carrollton Avenue: From a Separate Town to the Heart of the City
Carrollton Avenue: From a Separate Town to the Heart of the CityCarrollton Avenue is one of those New Orleans streets that carries an entire lost world in its name. Before it was a street in New Or...
Prytania Street: The Quiet Spine of Uptown New Orleans
Prytania Street: The Quiet Spine of UptownIf St. Charles Avenue is the grand public face of Uptown New Orleans, Prytania Street is the quieter, more intimate street running parallel just one block ...
Elysian Fields Avenue: A Streetcar Named Desire Lived Here
Elysian Fields Avenue: A Streetcar Named Desire Lived HereElysian Fields Avenue may be the most literary street address in America. It was here, at the intersection of Elysian Fields and the street...
Poydras Street: The Power Corridor of New Orleans
Poydras Street: The Power CorridorPoydras Street is where New Orleans does business. This wide boulevard cutting through the Central Business District is lined with skyscrapers, law firms, oil comp...
Rampart Street: The Border Between Two Worlds
Rampart Street: The Border Between Two WorldsRampart Street is the original back wall of New Orleans. When the French built the city in the early 1700s, they constructed a rampart—a defensive earth...
Basin Street: Where Jazz Was Born and Storyville Burned
Basin Street: Where Jazz Was Born and Storyville BurnedBasin Street is one of the most legendary street names in American music. Thanks to the jazz standard "Basin Street Blues," the name evokes im...
