127-129 Carondelet Street

In the 1840s James Gallier Sr. put up a string of buildings on Carondelet Street for his offices and workshops and used them for as long as he stayed in business. He passed them to his son, the architect James Gallier Jr., who renovated the row, and a newspaper description of the complex gave it the name Gallier Court. The Daily Picayune pictured stores underneath and twenty-five rooms above meant for boarding houses. In the 1980s a judge and his son bought 127-129 Carondelet, and their law firm worked there for more than twenty-five years.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 0.4 mi
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 0.4 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 0.4 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.
• The Cabildo — 0.5 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.

More markers nearby

• Canal Street Under French and Spanish Rule (1718-1803) — steps away
• New Orleans Slave Depot — steps away
• Immaculate Conception Church (Jesuits') — steps away
• Jefferson Highway — steps away