Newcomb Pottery Garden

The studio split its labor by sex. Women students and alumnae drew the designs, with Mary Sheerer directing design from 1896 to 1925, while men threw the clay: Joseph Meyer, who joined in 1897, turned most of the pots. Paul Cox arrived in 1910 to improve the clay and glazes, and his soft, waxy, semi-matte finish became Newcomb's signature. The partnership won a bronze medal at the 1900 Paris exposition, and in all the studio produced roughly 70,000 pieces. Designs drew on pinecones, cotton bolls, cypress and irises.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 2.3 mi
  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.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 3.2 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 — 3.4 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.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 3.5 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.

More markers nearby

• H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College — steps away
• Town of Carrollton — 0.7 mi
• Gilbert Academy and New Orleans University — 1.1 mi
• Audubon Park History — 1.2 mi