Enrique Alférez

Alférez was born on May 4, 1901, in San Miguel del Mezquital, now Miguel Auza, Mexico, and learned sculpture from his woodworker father. He ran away at twelve and was conscripted into the Constitutional Army during the Mexican Revolution. In 1920 he left for El Paso, where he worked as a photographer's assistant. Lorado Taft urged him to study in Chicago, and in 1929, out of money, he settled in New Orleans. Many of his works there were WPA commissions, among them Molly Marine and the Fountain of the Four Winds. He died on September 14, 1999.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 0.5 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 — 0.6 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.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 0.7 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.
• The Cabildo — 0.7 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

• Lafayette Square — steps away
• Kossuth — steps away
• Bank's Arcade — steps away
• Jefferson Highway — steps away