7 Stunning Architecture Landmarks in New Orleans
7 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Commander's Palace
1403 Washington Ave, Garden District, New Orleans, 70130, United States
Commander's Palace is the most important restaurant in New Orleans — a Garden District institution that has been defining Creole fine dining since 1880 and has launched more famous chefs than any culinary school in America.
Garden District
St Charles Ave at Washington Ave, New Orleans, LA 70130
The Garden District is where the Americans built their mansions after the Louisiana Purchase — a deliberate statement of wealth and taste aimed at the Creole establishment in the French Quarter who considered the English-speaking newcomers to be uncultured barbarians.
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1
1416 Washington Ave, Garden District, New Orleans, 70130, United States
Lafayette Cemetery No.
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.
Royal Street
Royal St, New Orleans, LA 70116
Royal Street is the elegant side of the French Quarter — a corridor of antique shops, art galleries, and street musicians that runs parallel to Bourbon Street, one block over, and operates in an entirely different register.
St. Louis Cathedral
615 Pere Antoine Alley, New Orleans, LA 70116
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The Cabildo
701 Chartres St, New Orleans, LA 70116
The Cabildo is the building where the Louisiana Purchase was signed on December 20, 1803 — the real estate deal that doubled the size of the United States, transferred 828,000 square miles from France to America for $15 million (roughly four cents an acre), and made New Orleans an American city almost by accident.
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