Our Lady of the Rosary Rectory

A Creole house in American clothes. Evariste Blanc's house on Bayou St. John, built about 1834, keeps the central-hall plan and tall proportions that American builders brought to Creole forms. A two-story gallery runs across the stuccoed brick, with heavy Tuscan columns below and turned wood columns above, and a widow's walk crowns the hipped roof. Ionic columns, sidelights and a fanlight frame the front door, and the same arrangement repeats upstairs. Blanc's descendants, the Denegre family, gave the house to the Catholic Church in 1905, and it has served the parish as its rectory.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 1.8 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 — 1.8 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 — 2.1 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 — 2.1 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

• Pitot House — steps away
• Jeanne Jugan — steps away
• The Old Portage — steps away
• Metairie And Gentilly Ridges — 0.3 mi