3 landmarks in French Quarter with verified facts and stories most people walk right past.
French Market
1235 N Peters St, French Quarter, New Orleans, 70116, United States
The French Market is the oldest continuously operating public market in the United States — a six-block stretch of covered stalls along the Mississippi riverfront that has been selling food, goods, and whatever else New Orleans needs since 1791.
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar
941 Bourbon St, French Quarter, New Orleans, 70116, United States
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is one of the oldest structures in the French Quarter — a crumbling brick-between-posts building from around 1772 that legend says was used as a front for the pirate Jean Lafitte's smuggling operation.
Old Ursuline Convent
1100 Chartres St, French Quarter, New Orleans, 70116, United States
The Old Ursuline Convent is the oldest building in the Mississippi Valley and the only surviving example of French Colonial architecture in the French Quarter — which makes it the only building in the 'French' Quarter that is actually French.
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