At every turn on the streets of New Orleans, there is a wealth of history and knowledge to be had right at your very feet! Amble down the cobblestones of the French Quarter, sashay through the Treme, careen down Canal, mosey through the Marigny or parade down the streets of the Garden District. http://www.neworleans.com/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:34:05 +0000 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.neworleans.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.neworleans.com/ At every turn on the streets of New Orleans, there is a wealth of history and knowledge to be had right at your very feet! Amble down the cobblestones of the French Quarter, sashay through the Treme, careen down Canal, mosey through the Marigny or parade down the streets of the Garden District. http://www.neworleans.com/tours/neighborhood-walking-tours/972-uptown-tours.html We encourage you to use good judgment and common sense in taking these tours.TOUR AA ride on the streetcar is a fine way to survey the course of New Orleans’ upriver march during the 19th century. Uptown proper begins at Louisiana Avenue, where the Wiltz family subdivided their plantation into... Adam Tustin Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:29:04 +0000 http://www.neworleans.com/tours/neighborhood-walking-tours/970-south-lakeview-tour.html We encourage you to use good judgment and common sense in taking this tour.Walking: From downtown, take the Canal Street streetcar to the end of the line at Canal and City Park Avenue. Cross City Park Avenue for a self-guided tour of historic Greenwood Cemetery, a rich milieu of statuary, wrought... Adam Tustin Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:12:32 +0000 http://www.neworleans.com/tours/neighborhood-walking-tours/968-new-marigny-tours.html We encourage you to use good judgment and common sense in taking these tours.St. Roch Avenue and Cemetery (drive) The St. Roch Market (circa 1840) at the intersection of St. Claude and St. Roch avenues is a rare surviving example of a type of public, covered market once found in every neighborhood... Adam Tustin Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:24:35 +0000 http://www.neworleans.com/tours/neighborhood-walking-tours/967-mid-city-tours.html We encourage you to use good judgment and common sense in touring the neighborhood. A. B.Wood’s invention of the screw pump increased dry land in New Orleans sevenfold, making it possible for the first time to build from the Mississippi River to the shores of Lake Pontchartrain. Factories and... Adam Tustin Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:12:10 +0000 http://www.neworleans.com/tours/neighborhood-walking-tours/966-lower-garden-district-tours.html We encourage you to use good judgment and common sense in taking these tours. TOUR AMagazine Street (drive/bike/bus) Riding the Magazine St. bus (#11) from Poydras St. to Felicity St. is an excellent way to understand the relationship between the Lower Garden District and the slightly older Central... Adam Tustin Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:38:06 +0000 http://www.neworleans.com/tours/neighborhood-walking-tours/965-irish-channel-tours.html We encourage you to use good judgment and common sense in taking these tours.TOUR AJackson Avenue to Washington Avenue (walk/bike) While technically the Magazine St. corridor is outside the Irish Channel National Register Historic District, the street is the heart of the neighborhood and its main... Adam Tustin Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:21:29 +0000 http://www.neworleans.com/tours/neighborhood-walking-tours/964-holy-cross-tour.html We encourage you to use good judgment and common sense in taking this tour.Sister Street and Mississippi River Levee (walk) Sister Street is named in honor of the Ursuline Nuns, who built a convent near here in 1826 and remained until 1912. Climbing to the top of the levee at the Industrial Canal,... Adam Tustin Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:48:42 +0000 http://www.neworleans.com/tours/neighborhood-walking-tours/963-gentilly-terrace-tours.html We encourage you to use good judgment and common sense in taking these tours.TOUR ADrive/Bike Start at 4635 Gentilly Blvd., the home of Gentilly Terrace developer R.E. Edgar deMontluzin.Tree-lined Gentilly Boulevard is an ancient route connecting Bayou Sauvage at the Rigolets with Bayou Road and the... Adam Tustin Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:35:45 +0000 http://www.neworleans.com/tours/neighborhood-walking-tours/962-garden-district-tours.html We encourage you to use good judgment and common sense in taking these tours.TOUR AMagazine St. (ride/walk) The Magazine St. bus (#11) will take you through the Garden District stretch of Magazine St., but the only way to truly experience its variety and richness is on foot, slowly. Begin at... Adam Tustin Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:48:11 +0000 http://www.neworleans.com/tours/neighborhood-walking-tours/973-vieux-carre-walking-tours.html Taking aim on a few key clusters of buildings will lead you into the residents’ French Quarter. We encourage you to use good judgment and common sense in taking these tours.Tour ATaking aim on a few key clusters of buildings will lead you into the residents’ French Quarter. We encourage you to... Kim Ranjbar Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:18:34 +0000 http://www.neworleans.com/tours/neighborhood-walking-tours/961-faubourg-marigny-tours.html We encourage you to use good judgment and common sense in taking these tours.TOUR AMarigny Triangle (walk/bike) The City of New Orleans controlled the 100-foot deep lots along Esplanade Ave., which are oriented toward the street grid of the French Quarter, but the streets turn sharply as you enter... Adam Tustin Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:12:02 +0000 http://www.neworleans.com/tours/neighborhood-walking-tours/971-treme-walkingdriving-tour.html We encourage you to use good judgment and common sense in taking these tours. Begin at the gateway of Armstrong Park (St.Ann Street at N. Rampart Street). In the late 1960s,the park’s construction caused 12 blocks of historic Treme to be razed, but a handful of historic structures, including the... Kim Ranjbar Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:52:44 +0000 http://www.neworleans.com/tours/neighborhood-walking-tours/969-parkview-walking-tours.html We encourage you to use good judgment and common sense in taking these tours.Tour A A ride on the railway—the City Park mini-railway, that is—is a great way to survey the park and the neighborhood that overlooks it.The 2.5-mile rail circuit begins and ends in Storyland, City Park’s famed... Kim Ranjbar Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:28:42 +0000 http://www.neworleans.com/tours/neighborhood-walking-tours/960-esplanade-ridge-walking-tours.html We encourage you to use good judgment and common sense in taking these tours.TOUR ABayou St. John (walk) Bayou St. John was the area’s first highway from French settlements on the Gulf Coast, so early land grants on its banks predate the city of New Orleans by ten years. Start where Esplanade... Adam Tustin Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:18:56 +0000 http://www.neworleans.com/tours/neighborhood-walking-tours/959-carrollton-walking-tours.html We encourage you to use good judgment and common sense in taking these tours.TOUR ASt. Charles Avenue/Carrollton Avenue (streetcar) As it does with the Garden District and Uptown, the St. Charles Avenue Streetcar offers one of the best overviews of historic Carrollton. Heading upriver from Lowerline... Adam Tustin Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:48:21 +0000 http://www.neworleans.com/tours/neighborhood-walking-tours/958-broadmoor-walking-tour.html We encourage you to use good judgment and common sense in taking this tour.Drive/Bike/Walk: From westbound Claiborne Avenue turn right onto Octavia Street.The homes here are representative of the architecture found throughout Broadmoor from various historic revival styles to raised bungalows.... Adam Tustin Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:20:27 +0000 http://www.neworleans.com/tours/neighborhood-walking-tours/957-algiers-point-walking-tours.html We encourage you to use good judgment and common sense in taking these tours.TOUR AFerry landing to Pelican Avenue (walk) The ferry ride across the Mississippi is one of the most pleasant excursions, day or night, in New Orleans, and it’s free unless you take a car. (Ferries run 5:45 a.m. to 11:45... Adam Tustin Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:43:24 +0000