The Garden District, or ‘Lafayette City’, as it was once known, is just a short streetcar ride from the French Quarter, but it feels like a world apart. Excluded from early 19th-century Creole society, newly arrived Yankees got to work creating their city.
The result is one of New Orleans’s most desired neighborhoods and one of the nation’s most beautifully preserved city districts. It’s home to the rich, the famous, the strange, and the dead!
- Time: About 2 Hours
- Distance: About 1.5 miles (2.5 km)
- Start: the intersection of St. Charles Avenue and Washington Avenue
- End: Commander’s Palace Restaurant
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