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238 or 240 Bourbon St., New Orleans, Louisiana. Coordinates. 29°57′19″N 90°04′06″W / . 29.955358°N 90.068434°W. / 29.955358; -90.068434. Website. Official website. The Old Absinthe House is a historic building on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.
The most renowned restaurant on Bourbon Street is Galatoire's; it represents traditional New Orleans dining and has a dress code. Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop and the Old Absinthe House are two of the many casual eateries. [3] Also notable is the locals’ hangout, the Bourbon House.
Brennan's was founded in 1946 by Owen Brennan, an Irish-American restaurateur and New Orleans native. It was originally called the Vieux Carré restaurant and was located on Bourbon Street across from the Old Absinthe House until 1956 when it moved to its current location. This building, a two-story French Quarter mansion at 417 Royal Street ...
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is a historic structure at the corner of Bourbon Street and St. Philip Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Most likely built as a house in the 1770s during the Spanish colonial period, it is one of the oldest surviving structures in New Orleans. According to legend, the privateer Jean Lafitte, aka ...
The French Opera House, or Théâtre de l'Opéra, was an opera house in New Orleans. It was one of the city's landmarks from its opening in 1859 until it was destroyed by fire in 1919. It stood in the French Quarter at the uptown lake corner of Bourbon and Toulouse Streets, with the main entrance on Bourbon. The site is currently occupied by ...
House of Orléans. The 4th House of Orléans ( French: Maison d'Orléans ), sometimes called the House of Bourbon-Orléans (French: Maison de Bourbon-Orléans) to distinguish it, is the fourth holder of a surname previously used by several branches of the Royal House of France, all descended in the legitimate male line from the dynasty 's ...
The oldest church building in Louisiana and the entirety of the old Louisiana Purchase territory. Destrehan Plantation. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1787-90. House. French colonial antebellum mansion [4] Homeplace Plantation House. Hahnville, Louisiana. 1787-1791.
The buildings and architecture of New Orleans reflect its history and multicultural heritage, from Creole cottages to historic mansions on St. Charles Avenue, from the balconies of the French Quarter to an Egyptian Revival U.S. Customs building and a rare example of a Moorish revival church. The city has fine examples of almost every ...