E.T. Robinson Mansion

Sophie B. Wright was born in 1866 and fell at three, injuring her back and hips. She used a wheelchair for six years, then crutches. At fourteen she opened a day school for white girls at her family's Race Street home for 50 cents a month. It grew into the Home Institute and a night school for white working people, and in 1895 both schools moved to the 1400 block of Camp Street. In 1908 she became first president of a United Daughters of the Confederacy chapter; she died in 1912. Her statue was vandalized in 2020.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 0.8 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.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 1.5 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 — 1.6 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 — 1.7 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

• Higgins Boat (LCVP) — 0.3 mi
• Margaret's Place and Walk / Lower Garden District — 0.4 mi
• Goldsmith-Godchaux House — 0.4 mi
• LaRocca Residence — 0.5 mi