Welcome to Atlantis Tour Guides (the audio tour division of Tours by Foot). We are excited you chose to take our Garden District self guided audio tour.
INSTRUCTIONS:
This is a self guided tour that you can take at any time. It is not date specific and you can listen to it as many times as you'd like.
Find the audio stops listed below. You can listen out of order if you chose but the verbal instructions to get between stops will follow our suggested map route.
Each stop has a Google Map link to ensure you can easily fine the next stop, but you can also use this embeddable Google Map.
You can also use the .pdf file of the written tour script with clickable links for ease of download.
You can use this map by clicking on the square in the upper right corner. It will then open your Google Maps app (you must have this app for the map to work) with the stops shown. You cannot download the self guided tour map, but if you'd like to use this map without data, be sure to leave this page open!
Jump to an option to use this tour data free...
TOUR DETAILS
Our tour begins at the intersection of St. Charles Avenue and Washington Avenue. This spot is along the St. Charles Avenue Streetcar or five blocks from the #11 bus that runs along Magazine Street. If you’re arriving by either of these means, the stop you want is Washington Avenue. The tour ends at Commander’s Palace Restaurant.
This is mostly residential neighborhood and the tour is best during the day. You can take it whenever but one of the stops is Lafayette Cemetery # - you can walk by and peek in at any time of day but if you want to go in, you'll need to go when it is open so check that out first.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN...
We suggest you save this page to your home screen, making it easy for you to return to this page between stops. You can do this via the Add To Homescreen Button on your device.
STOPS:
Click on the name to hear the audio for each stop. The audio file will open in a new tab. You can also find a Google Map link to assist if needed in getting to the stop.
- STOP 1: Introduction (St. Charles Avenue and Washington Avenue Tram Stop - map)
- STOP 2: Heart of the Garden District (Washington Avenue and Prytania St - map)
- STOP 4: Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 (1427 Washington Ave - map)
- STOP 5: Colonel Short’s Villa (1448 Fourth St - map)
- STOP 6: Briggs Staub House (2605 Prytania St - map)
- STOP 7: Our Mother of Perpetual Help Chapel (2523 Prytania St - map)
- STOP 8: Women's Opera Guild (2504 Prytania St - map)
- STOP 9: Toby's Corner (2340 Prytania St - map)
- STOP 10: Archie Manning House (1420 First St - map)
- STOP 11: Buckner Mansion (1410 Jackson Ave - map)
- STOP 12: Payne-Strachan House (1134 First St - map)
- STOP 13: Brevard Mahat / Anne Rice House (1239 First St - map)
- STOP 14: Morris Israel House (1331 First St - map)
- STOP 15: Joseph Merrick Jones House (2425 Coliseum St - map)
- STOP 16: Musson Bell House (1331 Third St - map)
- STOP 17: Robinson House (1415 Third St - map)
- STOP 18: Eustis/ Sandra Bullock Residence (2627 Coliseum Street - map)
- STOP 19: Benjamin Button House - (2707 Coliseum St - map)
- STOP 20: Commander's Palace - (1403 Washington Ave - map)
Data Free Option
If you would like to listen to this data free, we suggest you download the .mp4 file below. This is an audio file that includes the entire tour in one go. You can download it depending on your device settings and it should appear in your Files.
The audio is one long file, but you will be given instructions to pause between stops.
Click here to open the AUDIO FILE OF ENTIRE TOUR.
Time Stamps for individual stops:
