Faubourg Bouligny

Louis Bouligny, who lived from 1781 to 1862, bought the plantation in 1829 and planned to turn it into a neighborhood. Benjamin Buisson, a Parisian who had served as a lieutenant in Napoleon's artillery and surveyed New Orleans from 1832 to 1855, is generally credited with the layout, though the deputy surveyor Charles Zimpel signed the 1832 map. The widest street became Napoleon Avenue, and cross streets took the names Jena, Milan, Marengo and Cadiz. A railroad ran through the district and encouraged other landowners to subdivide. A fire in 1857 destroyed most of Buisson's plans.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 1.0 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.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 2.9 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.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 3.0 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 — 3.0 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

• Halfway Station — steps away
• McDonogh No. 7 Elementary School — 0.3 mi
• Gilbert Academy and New Orleans University — 0.6 mi
• Jefferson City — 0.9 mi