The Faerie Playhouse

The cottage dates to 1844 and is the last of four identical Passebon Row houses, and its first owner was Athalie Drouillard, a free woman of color. Stewart Butler and Alfred Doolittle met at Mardi Gras in 1973, were at the Up Stairs Lounge shortly before the arson fire there, and bought the house in 1979. Butler helped found the New Orleans LGBT Community Center and the archive project that became the LGBT Archives of Louisiana. Peter DeLancey, who died of an HIV-related illness in 1998, is buried in the garden, which now holds the remains of 21 people.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Congo Square — 0.4 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.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 0.6 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.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 0.8 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

• Tomb of the Unknown Slave — steps away
• Saint Augustine Church, New Orleans — steps away
• Faubourg Tremé — steps away
• Carmelite Monastery — 0.2 mi