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TOUR A
A 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 Faubourg Plaisance in 1807. You’re now passing through Jefferson City, a separate entity within Jefferson Parish until 1870. Milton H. Latter Memorial Library (1907), 5120 St. Charles, is the only grand St. Charles house Uptown open to the public. Many of the galleried wooden mansions lining St. Charles are attributed to Thomas Sully, though Favrot and Livaudais, Emile Weil, Henry Howard, and other important New Orleans architects are also represented here.

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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 iron, and distinctive tombs which exhibit the vast family backgrounds of New Orleanians dating back to the mid-nineteenth century.

Exiting Greenwood, turn left and cross Canal Boulevard, turning left again toward Lake Pontchartrain.This is a perfect opportunity to grab a bite to eat or a beverage at either McNulty’s Bitter End, or The Bulldog, both which provide indoor and outdoor seating.

Continue north on Canal Boulevard, passing numerous commercial establishments, to Louque Place and notice the two iron lamp poles which flank the entrance to the street to the right of Canal Boulevard. Continue one block to Navarre Avenue and view the two magnificent examples of Mediterranean Revival architecture embodied in the houses across the wide thoroughfare at 5500 and 5504 Canal Boulevard. Turn right on Navarre and then right again at Vicksburg Street and back to Louque Place.Turn left on Louque and take in the abundance of neat single-family and double Craftsman-style cottages here.

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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 of New Orleans.Today, the picturesque wooden structure is home to a takeout seafood and sandwich shop, though its proposed redevelopment as a multi-use center was a key element of a 1999 Tulane University study for the area’s revitalization. Drive alongside the building to discover St. Roch Avenue, a mostly residential boulevard with a wide central median.The shotgun houses and Creole cottages here are representative of the neighborhood as a whole. St. Roch Avenue was first an extension of Poets Street in Faubourg Marigny but was renamed Washington Walk and reshaped as one of three boulevards anchoring Faubourg Franklin in 1834. (The other two, St. Claude Avenue and Franklin Avenue, still exist.)

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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 government agencies rushed to build on new in-town locations. One outstanding building project was the Criminal Courts Building, now on the National Register of Historic Places, constructed at Tulane and Broad streets in 1929.The area just behind the court building and parish prison was once Jane Alley, a street of modest houses. It was here that Louis “Satchmo”Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901, in the home of his maternal grandmother.A plaque marks the approximate location of the building.

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TOUR A
Magazine 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 Business District. In the 1200-1400 blocks, you’ll pass through an area of Greek Revival buildings with second story galleries typical of the 1850s and 1860s.The massive brick St.Vincent’s Orphan Asylum (1501 Magazine St.), built in 1864, is a reminder that scores of children in the mid-19th century were orphaned, first by diseases like yellow fever and then by the Civil War.Two blocks further on, at Felicity St., you’re at the start of a shopping district that national travel writers have rated as one of America’s “hippest.”Veer right along Magazine, where you’ll find several galleries,Aidan Gill’s vintage tonsorial emporium, home design stores, an award-winning jewelry designer, a florist, several antique stores, a used furniture market and a bodega.Today’s living pattern here, with stores on the first floor of buildings and residences on the second and third floors, reflects the classic 19th-century arrangement.

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TOUR A
Jackson 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 commercial thoroughfare.The Magazine St. bus (#11) takes this route, but it’s more fun to walk and experience the shops and houses up close. From Jackson to Washington, Magazine is primarily residential, with a smattering of sandwich shops and galleries. The townhouse at 1100 Jackson Ave., corner Magazine Street, houses the offices of Koch and Wilson architects, whose late principals, Richard Koch and Samuel Wilson,were instrumental in the early preservation of New Orleans’ historic neighborhoods. Detour left on Philip St. and left on Constance St. to visit the former home of Nick LaRocca, bandleader for the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, at 2218 Constance Street. Return to 2319 Magazine St. (ca 1853), which London-born architect John Turpin built as his private home when he was a partner in the architectural firm of Gallier,Turpin and Company. Continue up Magazine St. and veer left on Third St. to visit Parasol’s (est. 1950; 2533 Constance St.), a neighborhood favorite for po-boys and cocktails and a citywide favorite for celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. Note the newly renovated shotgun houses in the 2600 block of Constance St., cattycorner from the bar.Veer right to the Bogart-Lee House at 1020 Fourth St. (ca 1949). Check out the fine details of this Greek Revival style home and the unusual feature of a side gallery entered through the front door.

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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, you’ll gain a view of the spacious lots and porches that lend the typical shotgun cottages of this neighborhood the feel of small farmhouses. The canal with its lock, constructed 1916-1923, was world-class engineering and the first reinforced concrete continuous-pour in the United States. However, it was a source of bitter feelings in the neighborhood. Elder residents recall being told to leave their homes on five days’ notice, with scant compensation, to make way for the canal and the rollback of the levees. Today,well-organized and informed residents oppose plans by the U.S.Army Corps of Engineers to replace the St. Claude Ave. Bridge and the existing locks on the canal.

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TOUR A
Drive/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 present-day Vieux Carré. In this neighborhood it is also known as Dreux St. in honor of French colonists Mathurin and Pierre Dreux, who established their plantation near here. Follow descending street numbers to Music St. and turn right to pass two outstanding examples of Craftsman-style architecture at 4460 Music St. (note the inlaid pebble details) and across the street at 4489 Music Street. A left on Lombard St., then right on St. Roch Ave.—another of this area’s beautiful oak-lined boulevards—brings you to Bihli House, 4615 St. Roch Avenue.

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 A
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. While many of the homes on Esplanade Avenue remain single-family residences, contemporary apartment hunters and condo shoppers vie for space, just as wealthy Creoles and Americans did when the commons here was first divided into building lots in 1812.The soaring ceilings and classic details of the mansions and three- and four-story townhomes, many now divided into smaller units, continue to make Esplanade a popular address. Start at the Old U.S. Mint near the river, once site of the Spanish Fort of San Carlos, and walk to Rampart St., alternating sides for a better look.The tree-lined avenue bustles with dog walkers and delivery boys on bikes.