Faubourg Marigny

Elysian Fields, named for the Champs-Elysees, was the faubourg's main street and the first avenue in the New Orleans area to run from the riverfront to Lake Pontchartrain. The Pontchartrain Railroad began running down its center in 1830 and 1831, which spurred lot sales. St. Claude Avenue was once Goodchildren Street, and across it Creoles of color and German immigrants settled mainly from the 1830s to the 1880s. The New Marigny Historic District joined the National Register in 1994, and the railroad edge along Press Street now carries the name Homer Plessy Way.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Cabildo — 0.5 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 — 0.6 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.
• Congo Square — 0.6 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.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 0.7 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.

More markers nearby

• New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade — steps away
• French Market — steps away
• Old Ursuline Convent — steps away
• Gallier House — 0.2 mi