Garden District

Wealthy Americans bought the Livaudais land in parcels because they did not want to live in the French Quarter beside Creoles. The first blocks held only a couple of houses each, set in large gardens, and when large lots were split in the late 1800s the old mansions ended up beside Victorian houses with gingerbread trim. The Confederate president Jefferson Davis died at 1134 First Street in 1889. Anne Rice and her husband bought the Brevard-Rice House, built in 1857, in 1989. The district's reputation rests on its architecture more than its gardens.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — steps away
  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.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 2.1 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 — 2.2 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 — 2.2 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.

More markers nearby

• Commander's Palace — steps away
• Freret's Folly — steps away
• Christ Church Cathedral (Episcopal) — steps away
• The New Zion Baptist Church — 0.6 mi