Gallier House

Construction began in 1857, and James Gallier Jr. moved in with his wife and children in 1860. The house mixes Greek Revival and Italianate styles, with stucco over soft local brick on brick foundations and a cast-iron front gate that Gallier designed himself. The property also includes slave quarters. It became a contributing property to the French Quarter landmark district on December 21, 1965, and was designated a National Historic Landmark on May 30, 1974, for its association with Gallier. The Woman's Exchange took over stewardship from Tulane University in 1996.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Cabildo — 0.3 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.
• 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.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 0.4 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.
• 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.

More markers nearby

• Old Ursuline Convent — steps away
• Birthplace of Danny Barker — steps away
• First Protestant Church in New Orleans — steps away
• New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade — steps away