Louis J. Dufilho

The house outlived its pharmacist's fame. Louis Dufilho Jr. was licensed in pharmacy in 1816 and lived and kept his apothecary at 514 Chartres until 1855, in a two-story Creole townhouse built in 1822 and 1823 to J. N. B. DePouilly's design. Dr. James Dupas lived there afterward. Ghost-tour stories that Dupas experimented cruelly on enslaved people have little or no evidence behind them, but the 1850 census records Dupas enslaving two people, a man and a woman, whose names do not survive in it. It later held a paper warehouse, and since 1950 the Pharmacy Museum.

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 — steps away
  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 — steps away
  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.
• Congo Square — 0.4 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.

More markers nearby

• Homesite of Oliver Pollock — steps away
• Original Pierre Maspero's Slave Exchange — steps away
• L'Union New Orleans Tribune Building — steps away
• Faulkner House — steps away