Houses/Mansions in New Orleans

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Adams House
The curved gallery on the left side of this circa-1860 house is...
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Anthemion
A fashion for Colonial Revival architecture in the late 19th...
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Benachi-Torre House
This elegant Greek Revival mansion was built in 1859 for the...
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Houses / Mansions Bayou St. John
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Benjamin House
This beaux-arts beauty, built in 1912 for cotton factor Emanuel...
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Brevard House
Though Anne Rice moved out of the elegant Garden District home...
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Briggs-Staub House
The only Gothic Revival house in the district was built around...
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Brown House
Completed in 1904, the Brown House is the largest mansion on...
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Buckner Mansion
This 1856 home was built by cotton factor Henry S. Buckner in...
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Bultman Funeral Home
This huge white mansion with an enclosed garden was one of the...
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Camelback Houses
When these were built in the late 1800s, houses were taxed by...
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Carroll House
This grand Italianate home and its neighbor at 1331 First Street...
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Castles House
Local architect Thomas Sully designed this 1896 Colonial Revival...
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Colonel Short's Villa
A dining-room wing is tacked onto the Greek Revival layout of...
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Doll House
Designed in the same Tudor style as the main house beside it...
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Elms Mansion
Built in 1869, this elegant home with marble fireplaces and stained-glass...
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Faulkner House
The young novelist William Faulkner lived and wrote his first...
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Houses / Mansions French Quarter
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Freret's Folly
These once identical Greek Revival houses were built by the son...
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Gauche House
One of the most distinctive houses in the French Quarter, this...
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Goodrich-Stanley House
This restored Creole cottage is an excellent example of the modest...
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Harris-Maginnis House
This oversize Creole cottage is notable for the unusually deep...
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Haunted House
Locals agree that this is the most haunted house in a generally...
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Houses / Mansions French Quarter
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House on Bayou Road
This West Indies Creole-style house served as the main house...
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Houses / Mansions Bayou St. John
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Jelly Roll Morton House
Jazz enthusiasts will want to follow Frenchmen Street beyond...
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Houses / Mansions Seventh Ward
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La Madeleine
Stop for a cup of coffee, a pastry, or a variety of lunch choices...
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Quick Bites, Houses / Mansions Uptown
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LaBranche Houses
This complex of lovely town houses, built in the 1830s by Widow...
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Houses / Mansions French Quarter
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Latrobe House
Architect Henry Latrobe designed this modest house with Arsene...
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Houses / Mansions French Quarter
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Longue Vue House and Gardens
Eight acres of gardens embellished with fountains surround this...
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Houses / Mansions Metairie
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Lonsdale House
As a 16-year-old immigrant working in the New Orleans shipyards...
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Luling Mansion
The massive three-story Italianate Luling Mansion was designed...
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Houses / Mansions Bayou St. John
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Madame John's Legacy
Now a state museum, this is the only example in the French Quarter...
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Maddox House
Built in 1852, this house exemplifies the five-bay, center-hall...
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McCarthy House
A deep front lawn emphasizes the perfect symmetry of this classic...
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Miltenberger Houses
The widow Amelie Miltenberger built this row of three brick town...
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Mojo Coffee House
One block from Coliseum Square, at the corner of Magazine and...
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Quick Bites, Houses / Mansions Garden District
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Morris House
By the end of the 1850s, Garden District tastes began to evolve...
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Orleans Club
This sumptuous mansion was built in 1868 as a wedding gift from...
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Payne House
Confederate president Jefferson Davis died here on December 6...
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Pitot House
One of the few surviving houses that lined the bayou in the late...
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Houses / Mansions Bayou St. John
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Pontalba Buildings
Baroness Micaela Pontalba built these twin sets of town houses...
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Houses / Mansions French Quarter
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Robinson House
Styled after an Italian villa, this home built in the late 1850s...
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Rosenberg House
The brick facade and Corinthian columns on this stately 1911...
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Schlesinger House
The columns and the simple lines in the framing of doors and...
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Seven Sisters Houses
Legend has it that the seven nearly identical shotgun houses...
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Smith House
This bucolic Mediterranean villa was built in 1906 for William...
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Sully House
This was the family home of local architect Thomas Sully, who...
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Tara
A replica built from the plans of the movie set of Gone with...
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Toby-Westfeldt House
Dating from the 1830s, this unpretentious French-colonial home...
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Wedding Cake House
A portico and decorative balconies help this house outshine most...
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Women's Guild of the New Orleans Opera Association House
This fundamentally Greek Revival house, built in 1858, has a...
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