Hermann - Grima House

Behind the house is its working yard. The French Quarter's only extant horse stable stands here, with an 1830s open-hearth kitchen and slave quarters built in the characteristic New Orleans style. Samuel Hermann bought the lot in 1831 and hired William Brand to build a Federal-style house with a courtyard garden. When a cotton market crash in England set off a worldwide panic in 1837, Hermann lost his fortune and sold. Felix Grima's family lived there from 1844 to 1921, and the Christian Woman's Exchange ran it as a boarding house for single women from 1924 until 1975.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Historic New Orleans Collection — steps away
  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 — 0.2 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 Cabildo — 0.2 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.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 0.3 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

• Original Pierre Maspero's Slave Exchange — steps away
• The Birthplace of "Dixie" — 0.2 mi
• Déterrer Storyville — 0.2 mi
• Marie Laveau — 0.3 mi