Ory Residence

Edward Ory was born on December 25, 1886, near LaPlace into a French-speaking Black Creole family and led a respected band by his teens. After the Hot Five sessions of 1925 and 1926 in Chicago he left music during the Depression and did not play again until 1943. Weekly spots on Orson Welles's radio program from March 15, 1944, helped revive interest in New Orleans jazz, and the Crescent label was founded to record his band. He retired to Hawaii in 1966 and died in Honolulu on January 23, 1973.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 0.8 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 — 1.6 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.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 1.6 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 — 1.7 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

• The New Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi
• Mass Lynching in New Orleans / Racial Violence in America — 0.4 mi
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 2 — 0.4 mi
• Higgins Boat (LCVP) — 0.5 mi