Beatles Only Concert Performance in Louisiana

The stadium that hosted the Beatles on September 16, 1964 was a Depression project. Ground was broken in 1935 and the Works Progress Administration finished it in 1937 as City Park Stadium, at a cost of $560,000, with Richard Koch and Weiss, Dreyfous and Seiferth as architects. It took Tad Gormley's name in 1957, honoring the athletic trainer and coach. A 1940 football game between Jesuit and Holy Cross drew a record 34,345. Katrina flooded it in 2005, and Reggie Bush later paid for repairs to the field, which carries his name.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 2.7 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.
• Congo Square — 2.8 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 3.1 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.
• The Cabildo — 3.1 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

• Duelling Grounds — 0.4 mi
• Allard Plantation — 0.7 mi
• Pitot House — 0.9 mi
• Charity Hospital Cemetery — 0.9 mi