The Home of Mrs. Philip (Elizebeth) Werlin

Elizebeth Thomas Werlein studied voice in Paris, flew by balloon to Belgium in 1908 and married the music publisher Philip Werlein III that August. Widowed in 1917, she founded the Red Cross canteen in New Orleans in 1919 and became the first president of the Louisiana League of Women Voters in 1920. In the Quarter she published a booklet of its wrought-iron railings after some had been removed, and in 1930 she organized the Vieux Carre Property Owners Association, which pressed for zoning and strict building codes. The American Institute of Architects made her an honorary member in 1942.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Cabildo — steps away
  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.
• 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 — 0.3 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.
• 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.

More markers nearby

• The Presbytère — steps away
• Bourbon Street Attack Memorial Crosses — steps away
• Faulkner House — steps away
• Lower Pontalba Building — steps away