Carrollton Neighborhood

The St. Charles Avenue streetcar runs down the median of Carrollton Avenue, and on Twelfth Night the Phunny Phorty Phellows ride it to open the Mardi Gras season. The Krewe of OAK parades through the neighborhood. Rising Sun Hall, a meeting and dance hall near the riverfront in the late nineteenth century, is cited as one possible inspiration for the song "The House of the Rising Sun." The Maple Leaf Bar on Oak Street is the best-known live-music venue, and Riverbend has the Nix Branch Library. The Carrollton Historic District joined the National Register on November 2, 1987.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 2.8 mi
  The Garden District's 1833 cemetery of about 1,100 family tombs, closed to visitors in 2019 and reopened on October 1, 2026 for small guided tours run by the Preservation Resource Center.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 3.0 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 — 3.2 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 — 3.3 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.

More markers nearby

• Carrollton Cemetery No. 1 — 0.6 mi
• Mater Dolorosa Church — 0.8 mi
• H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College — 1.0 mi
• Newcomb Pottery Garden — 1.0 mi