Gretna City Hall

The courthouse went up on a narrow lot in the middle of Huey P. Long Avenue, a site chosen in 1905, and was finished in brick around 1907. R. S. Soule is named as its architect. The Beaux-Arts front has a triple-arched entrance, Corinthian columns and a pediment, and curved bays on the sides follow the curved courtroom walls inside, a compact vertical plan for a slender site. Parish courts left in the 1950s for a nine-story glass courthouse by Claude Hooton, an early all-glass building in the South that proved costly and inefficient; it was demolished in 2008.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 1.4 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 — 2.6 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 — 2.7 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 — 2.8 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

• Royal Cyril Brooks — steps away
• Centennial Marker — steps away
• Mechanickham — steps away
• Stumpf's Magic Hoodoo — steps away