From Iberville Housing Development to Bienville Basin

Iberville opened in 1941 on ground cleared of Storyville, seventy-five brick rowhouse-style buildings with 858 apartments, designed by Herbert Benson, George Christy and William Spink and built by J. A. Jones for about $5.5 million. Under segregation it housed only white tenants, while the Lafitte project served Black tenants. It closed after Hurricane Katrina though reports found no major damage, and in 2013 sixty buildings were demolished, with human remains found on the site delaying the work. In 2015 sixteen residential buildings and the Administration Building were added to the National Register.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — steps away
  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 — 0.3 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 — 0.4 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 — 0.5 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

• Basin Street — steps away
• Déterrer Storyville — steps away
• Archaeology Finds Our Past — steps away
• Benito Juarez — steps away