THINGS TO DO AND SEE
*1850 House: Part of the Louisiana State Museums. 523 St Ann St. in the Lower Pontalba Building, the 1850 House is a recreation of an ante-bellum New Orleans town home furnished with museum collection items. Self-directed tours.
*Absinthe House: 238 Bourbon St. Built in 1806, in 1890 it became the Old Absinthe House, famous for its drink, the Absinthe Frappe.
*African American MUSEUM of Art, Culture and History (The Villa): The museum is housed in the Meilleur-Goldthwaite House. Built in 1828-29 by Simon Meilleur. it is probably the finest example of Creole villa construction in the city (West Indies, French Colonial style).
*Amistad Research Center: African American archives and museum. FREE. Monday through Saturday, 9:30am-4:30pm, 6823 St. Charles Avenue.
*Antique shops scattered over the French Quarter
*ANTIQUES and boutiques on Magazine Street, this 6 mile long street of antiques, specialty shops and restaurants. Get there by car, taxicab bus or streetcar.
*Frenchman St. with all its Jazz clubs
*Aquarium of the Americas. Located on the levee beside the Mississippi River @ the foot of Canal St. The Aquarium is home to more than 7,500 species of fish.
*The Ursuline Convent
*The Williams Research Center
*The Old U.S. Mint LA State Museum.
*Armstrong Park:
*New Orleans Athletic Club is the 2nd oldest club in the USA, founded in 1872. 222 N. Rampart St., 525-2375. Reciprocal privileges with clubs nationwide.
*Audubon Zoo, Take St. Charles Streetcar to Park, then walk 1.5 miles through the park to zoo.
*AUDUBON PARK: Beautiful place to walk through from St. Charles Ave. Streetcar to the zoo. Lots of joggers, families with children playing, babies being strolled, walk paths, HUGE live Oak trees.Avis,523-4317, 800-331-1212,
*The Backstreet Cultural Museum is the essence of New Orleans. Its historic location is filled with exhibits reflecting aspects of the unique cultural traditions and institutions of African-American culture. 1116 St. Claude Ave.
*Beauregard-Keyes House: (1826)? 1113 Chartres St. One time residence of Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard and later the home of novelist Frances Parkinson Keyes.
*Cafe' Du Monde
*Botanical Garden in City Park
*Cabildo MUSEUM (1799)?701 Chartres St. ? Exhibits Louisiana history from exploration through the Civil War.
*Jackson Square
*Royal Carriages, for private carriage tours
*Harrah?s Casino, at the intersection of Canal and Poydras streets. 512 S. Peters.
*The historic cemeteries nearest the French Quarter are St. Louis #1
*Central Grocery: The muffuletta sandwich a New Orleans specialty item, which Central claims to have invented. 923 Decatur
*Chalmette Battlefield: 8606 West St. Bernard Highway, Meraux
*City Park , Storyland amusement area, small amusement park with antique carousel and miniature train ride through park, Botanical Gradens, Sculpture Gardens
*Paddlewheel boats on Mississippi River
*FERRY RIDE: ride the free pedestrian ferry shuttle to historic Algiers Pointe
*French Market/flea market
*IMAX Theatre at the Aquarium
*The Insectorium
*Lake Ponchartrain (By car or bicycle) beautiful view of lake
*Mardi Gras World
*Preservation Hall: nature center (by car)
*Swamp tours (by car or tours pick up at B&B)
*Voodoo Museum
*City Park: New Orleans' City Park is the fifth largest urban park in America. 1,500 acres of magnificent, centuries-old Live Oak trees (look for the famous Dueling Oak)
*New Orleans Museum of Art
*MUSEUM of the American Cocktail
*New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, 514 Chartres St
*Contemporary Arts Center (CAC): 900 Camp St.
*Orleans School of Cooking: 524 St. Louis St. Orleans. 504-861-5898
*St. Louis Cathedral (Roman Catholic) @ Jackson Square (FQ): circa 1793. Masses Sunday 9am, 11am. Monday-Saturday, 7:30am, Saturday 5pm.
*Faulkner's House: 624 Pirates Alley - William Faulkner (1949 Nobel Literary Prize Winner) lived in this four story building in 1925 where he penned his first novel.
*Southern Food and Beverage Museum: Entrance is the Julia St. Side of Riverwalk Marketplace. Open Monday
*The Gallier House MUSEUM (1857) 1118-1132 Royal St.
*Hermann-Grima Houses.
*Ghost Tours
*Haunted History Tours
*Le Petit Theater :600 St. Peters
*Mardi Gras World: Where floats are made Shuttle is free from Casino/Hilton, at the end of the convention center buildings.
*D-Day Museum
*Pitot House Museum: 18th century plantation house on Bayou St. John. 1440 Moss St\RELIGIOUS
*Our Lady of Guadelope church on N. Rampart St. During the yellow fever epidemic in 1800s, this was built as the mortuary church. Now they have a Jazz Mass at 11:30am Sundays. It also is the International of St. Jude.
*Near by things to see are Swamp tours and Plantation tours.
