Heinemann Park/Pelican Stadium

The grandstand here was moved by mule. In 1914 and 1915 the wooden structure was hauled from Banks Street and Carrollton Avenue to this corner, which had briefly held the White City amusement park. It reopened April 13, 1915, named for owner A. J. Heinemann, with a design by Emile Weil, and held about 9,500 by 1940. After demolition in 1957 the site became the Fontainebleau Hotel, then storage space and dormitories for Xavier University students, and a Chick-fil-A now sits roughly where the infield was.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• 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.
• Congo Square — 2.3 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 — 2.6 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.
• The Cabildo — 2.7 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

• Charity Hospital Cemetery — 0.9 mi
• The Old Portage — 1.3 mi
• Allard Plantation — 1.3 mi
• Pitot House — 1.4 mi