Frenchmen Street: Where the Locals Go for Live Music
Frenchmen Street: Where the Locals Go for Live MusicFrenchmen Street is the live music capital of New Orleans. Tucked just outside the French Quarter in the Faubourg Marigny, this three-block stret...
Royal Street: The Elegant Side of the French Quarter
Royal Street: The Elegant Side of the French QuarterIf Bourbon Street is the id of the French Quarter, Royal Street is the superego. Running parallel to Bourbon just one block closer to the river, ...
St. Charles Avenue: The Grand Dame of New Orleans
St. Charles Avenue: The Grand Dame of New OrleansIf New Orleans has a Main Street for its soul, it is St. Charles Avenue. This sweeping boulevard runs from Canal Street all the way to the Riverbend...
Magazine Street: Six Miles of New Orleans Character
Magazine Street: Six Miles of New Orleans CharacterMagazine Street is the longest shopping street in New Orleans and one of the most beloved corridors in the city. Running six miles from Canal Stre...
Canal Street: The Widest Boulevard and the Great Divide
Canal Street: The Widest Boulevard and the Great DivideCanal Street is the spine of New Orleans. At 171 feet wide, it is one of the widest boulevards in North America, and for more than two centuri...
Bourbon Street: The Most Famous Street in America
Bourbon Street: The Most Famous Street in AmericaThere is no street in America more synonymous with a good time than Bourbon Street. Stretching thirteen blocks through the heart of the French Quart...
Made in Louisiana + Tchoup Bags
Tchoup Bags Founder and Creative Director Patti Dunn on fur purses, snoballs, and old wool curtains.
Old Ursuline Convent: The Oldest Building in the Mississippi Valley
The Oldest Building in the Mississippi ValleyIn a city where "old" is a relative term and buildings routinely claim ages they can't quite prove, the Old Ursuline Convent stands apart. Designed in 1...
Hotel Monteleone: The Sicilian Cobbler's Hotel That Became a Literary Landmark
From Cobbler to HotelierThe story of Hotel Monteleone starts with a pair of shoes. Antonio Monteleone was a cobbler from Sicily who came to New Orleans in the late 1800s with more ambition than lug...
The Presbytere: The Priests' House That Never Housed a Single Priest
The Priests' House That Never Housed PriestsThe Presbytere sits on Jackson Square like a dignified bookend, matching the Cabildo on the opposite side of St. Louis Cathedral with an elegance that su...
Jackson Square: Three Centuries of Art, History, and Street Performance
The Heart of the French QuarterEvery city has a center of gravity, and in New Orleans that center is Jackson Square — the open-air living room of the French Quarter where painters hang their work o...
The Singing Oak: City Park's Tree That Plays Music With the Wind
The Tree That Plays MusicIn a city full of live music, one of the most hauntingly beautiful performances comes from a performer that never takes a break, never passes a tip jar, and has been standi...
St. Louis Cathedral: The Oldest Cathedral in America Still Ringing Its Bells
The Church That Watched a City GrowThere are churches, and then there's St. Louis Cathedral — the triple-spired anchor of Jackson Square that has watched over New Orleans since before New Orleans w...
Canal Street: The Widest Boulevard That Divided and United New Orleans
The Widest Street With the Biggest StoryAt 142 feet wide, Canal Street isn't just the broadest boulevard in New Orleans — it's the seam that stitched together two very different cities. For more th...
The Moonwalk: The Riverfront Promenade Named for a Mayor, Not a Dance Move
Not That MoonwalkVisitors sometimes do a double take at the name, expecting a tribute to Michael Jackson's signature dance move. But the Moonwalk — the brick promenade that runs along the Mississip...
Armstrong Park and Congo Square: Where American Music Was Born
Where American Music Was BornLouis Armstrong Park sits just outside the French Quarter on Rampart Street, and within its gates lies the single most important piece of ground in the history of Ameri...
The Cabildo: Where America Doubled in Size With a Stroke of a Pen
Where America Doubled in SizeThe Cabildo is, by any measure, one of the most important buildings in American history. Standing at the corner of Jackson Square, flanking St. Louis Cathedral, this Sp...
The LaLaurie Mansion: The Darkest House on Royal Street
The House on Royal StreetAt 1140 Royal Street, in the heart of the French Quarter, stands a gray three-story mansion that looks, from the outside, much like its elegant neighbors. Iron balconies, t...
The French Opera House: When Bourbon Street Was the Most Cultured Street in America
The Night the Music BurnedFor most of the 19th century, New Orleans was the opera capital of America — not New York, not Boston, not Philadelphia. New Orleans. And the center of that world was the ...
The French Market: America's Oldest Open-Air Market Is Still Open
America's Oldest Open-Air MarketLong before there was a French Quarter, before there was even a city called New Orleans, Native Americans traded along the banks of the Mississippi at the spot where...
