Goldsmith-Godchaux House

Manuel Goldsmith, a German-born liquor merchant, was the first owner. The cotton press owner Henry Abraham held the house from 1870 to 1890, and the sugar magnate Leon Godchaux reportedly bought it then as a wedding gift for his daughter Anna and her husband, David Danziger. David Fischer laid out the gardens, with a lotus pool and an Alhambra-style fountain, in about 1900 by one account and 1920 by another. Later it held nine apartments. Al and Joan Sheen bought it in 1975 and returned it to a single home.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 0.5 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.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 1.9 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 — 2.0 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.
• The Cabildo — 2.1 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.

More markers nearby

• LaRocca Residence — steps away
• Newcomb House — 0.4 mi
• Freret's Folly — 0.4 mi
• E.T. Robinson Mansion — 0.4 mi