Déterrer Storyville

The name belongs to an alderman who did not want it. Sidney Story wrote the ordinance, and Storyville stuck over his objection. Ordinance No. 13,032 took effect on October 1, 1897, and regulated prostitution in about 38 blocks without making it legal. The Blue Books sold in barbershops, saloons and railroad stations listed houses and women by race. Mahogany Hall, run by Lulu White, had about 40 women, 15 bedrooms and five parlors. After the Army and Navy pressed for closure, the district was ordered shut by midnight on November 12, 1917; most buildings later fell for housing.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — steps away
  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 — 0.3 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 — 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.
• 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

• Marie Laveau — steps away
• Homer Adolph Plessy — steps away
• Bernard de Marigny — steps away
• Hermann - Grima House — 0.2 mi