Mayor Isaac W. Patton House

Isaac W. Patton was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on February 4, 1828, and served in the U.S. Army before the Civil War. As a colonel of the 22nd Louisiana Infantry he was wounded in the hip at Vicksburg, was captured and was paroled on May 9, 1865, at Meridian, Mississippi. He had been elected sheriff in 1872 and was Louisiana's adjutant general in 1877 and 1878. He then served as mayor from November 1878 to December 1880 and cut the city's debt by half. He later held the city treasurer's office and died in 1890.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — steps away
  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 — 2.1 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 — 2.2 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.
• 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.

More markers nearby

• Garden District — steps away
• Commander's Palace — steps away
• Christ Church Cathedral (Episcopal) — steps away
• Freret's Folly — steps away