Bank of Louisiana

Bickel, Hamblet and Fox designed the bank in 1826, and a New York firm made its iron fence on a London pattern. A fire damaged the building in 1861, and James Gallier Jr. supervised the repairs. After the bank was liquidated in 1867, the Louisiana legislature met here as the state capitol, from 1868 or 1869 to 1869 or 1870, by different accounts. Later it held an auction exchange, a concert hall, courts, a saloon and an American Legion hall. It was restored in 1971 for a tourism commission and now houses a police station.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Historic New Orleans Collection — steps away
  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.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — steps away
  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 Cabildo — 0.2 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.
• 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.

More markers nearby

• Jack Teagarden — steps away
• L'Union New Orleans Tribune Building — steps away
• Original Pierre Maspero's Slave Exchange — steps away
• Louis J. Dufilho — steps away