Annual Neighborhood Events • August: Night Out Against Crime LIVING WITH HISTORY • October: Preservation Resource Center’s IN ’ NEIGHBORHOODS Rebuilding Together program

Neighborhood Organizations eeww • Crescent City Peace Alliance NN • Faubourg Franklin Foundation rriiggnnyy • Faubourg St. Roch Improvement Association MMaa onvenient to both New Orleans’ Central 1798 Pierre Philippe de Marigny acquires Business District and the Vieux Carré, historic New Dubreuil Plantation Circle Food Store 1800 Marquis Antoine Xavier Bernard 1522 St. Bernard Avenue Marigny, also called Faubourg St. Roch, has all the Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville A TRADITION IN NEW ORLEANS makings of a desirable inherits from Pierre Philippe de Marigny We are still here and still serving the community. C downtown neighbor- 1803 Purchase Saving You Money on Groceries 1806 Nicholas de Finiels develops street Services, Bill Payments hood. Industrialization plan for Marigny; engineer Barthelemy BellSouth • Entergy • Sewer & Water Board and flight to the suburbs Lafon contracts to lay out the street grid We Accept Payment For: hit this area hard, how- 1810 Marigny extends original subdivision, American Express E Mobil (formerly Voicestream) MCI/MCI Worldcom Wireless Ford Motor Credit asking Lafon to plot area now known Chevron Toyota Financial Services Shell Gas Card Macy’s ever, and the construc- Discover Card AT & T Target Visa Card Sam’s Club as “New Marigny” GMAC Cingular Wireless Verizon Wireless Sprint/Sprint PCS tion of I-10 over a main 1831 (a.k.a. “Smoky Mervyn’s Dish Network Capital One Credit Card Texaco Sears JC Penney Dillard’s Wal-Mart thoroughfare in the Mary”), 2nd oldest railroad in U.S., opens on Elysian Fields 1960s sent many resi- 1832 World’s largest cotton press opens on dents and businesses present Press Street packing. By the 1990s 1836 New Marigny, with , established as Third Municipality of residents were faced the city with separate government with the effects of 1852 All municipalities combined into single decades of poverty, neg- city government of New Orleans 1850-70 Fashionable Esplanade Avenue draws lect and poor urban planning. In 1995 a group of wealthier Creoles away from Marigny Published by determined residents banded together to close a and New Marigny PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER notorious bar and forged a strong neighborhood 1867 Yellow fever outbreak prompts Lutheran OF NEW ORLEANS . coalition in the process. Since then, the same com- Reverend Peter Leonard Thevis to pledge R J

923 TCHOUPITOULAS STREET

R mitted residents, under the banner of the Crescent construction of shrine to St. Roch if his NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70130 E congregation is spared N 504/581-7032 N City Peace Alliance, have worked with Preservation O

1874 St. Roch Cemetery begun C www.prcno.org Resource Center’s Rebuilding Together program to 1876 St. Roch Shrine and Cemetery dedicated; N O

T paint and repair dozens of houses for elderly and Faubourg Franklin renamed Faubourg L O St. Roch T Since 1974 the Preservation Resource Center : disabled homeowners. They’ve also formed partner- O 1895 Drainage improvements enable T ships with local police to address crime, taken a has promoted the preservation, restoration O

development beyond Peoples Street H 1921 Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, a.k.a. and revitalization of New Orleans’ historic P systematic approach to blighted housing, and Industrial Canal, built below New Marigny neighborhoods and architecture. organized neighborhood tours and clean-ups. 1960s I-10 constructed over N. Claiborne Ave. PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW ORLEANS Creole landowner sold the 1995 Faubourg St. Roch Improvement INVITES YOU TO EXPLORE THE LOCAL SIDE OF LIFE lots in his 1806 subdivision, Faubourg Marigny, Association founded This brochure is made possible by a generous grant IN NEW MARIGNY, A NEIGHBORHOOD WITH 1994 New Marigny established as National from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities MANY CHALLENGES, MUCH HOPE, AND so quickly that he extended the development just Register Historic District DEDICATED HARD-WORKING CITIZENS. four years later. Sales of the affordable, modest- TOURS New Marigny

We encourage you to use good judgment and Base map provided by City Planning Commission; common sense in taking these tours. map created by Wendel Dufour & Aimee Preau St. Roch Avenue and Cemetery TOUR (drive) The St. Roch Market (circa 1840) at the intersection of St. Claude and St. A Roch avenues is a rare surviving example of a type of public, covered market once found in every neighborhood of New Orleans.Today, sized lots were spurred when the Pontchartrain the picturesque wooden structure is home to a take- Railroad, or “Smoky Mary,” began running on out seafood and sandwich shop, though its proposed in 1831. Development of the redevelopment as a multi-use center was a key ele- area downriver of Elysian Fields Avenue followed ment of a 1999 study for the area’s when Faubourg Franklin was laid out in 1834. This revitalization. Drive alongside the building to discov- neighborhood, like Faubourg Marigny across St. er St. Roch Avenue, a mostly residential boulevard Claude Avenue, was settled by French Creoles, with a wide central median.The shotgun houses and German immigrants and free people of color Creole cottages here are representative of the neigh- between the 1830s and 1880s. Several musicians borhood as a whole. St. Roch Avenue was first an either grew up in the neighborhood or moved here extension of Poets Street in Faubourg Marigny but was renamed Washington Walk and reshaped as one as adults. Ferdinand LaMothe, better known as Jelly of three boulevards anchoring Faubourg Franklin in Roll Morton, snuck away from his upright Creole 1834. (The other two, St. Claude Avenue and Franklin grandmother’s home just off Elysian Fields Avenue Avenue, still exist.) The name St. Roch comes from to play piano in the red light district, Storyville. the magnificent Gothic Revival 1876 St. Roch Sidney Bechet, Manny Perez, and Cemetery and Shrine located on the right between Paul Barbarin, all giants of New Orleans music, N. and N. Roman Street. During the also made their homes in the neighborhood. yellow fever plague of 1868, Lutheran Reverend infectious diseases, if his congregation were spared. the Sea Catholic Church, 1835 St. Roch Driving or walking through New Marigny Peter Leonard Thevis of Holy Trinity National The Chapel to St. Roch in the center of St. Roch No. Avenue, a central-plan church with today, you’ll find 20th century funk palaces like German Church in the Bywater promised to build a 1, which faces St. Roch Avenue, is often sprinkled attached parochial school. Circle the the Saturn Bar on St. Claude Avenue and 19th shrine to St. Roch, a French saint associated with with ex-votos left by supplicants seeking the saint’s playground and head back on St. Roch to century icons like the St. Roch Market, one of the intervention.The walls surrounding the cemetery are St. Claude Avenue. last surviving public market buildings in New filled with wall tombs, but if you look closely you’ll Orleans. The Circle Market at 1522 St. Bernard also see fourteen small shrines, one for each of the Avenue continues to thrive even with competition Stations of the Cross, where Catholics come for the Way of the Cross on Good Friday. One tradition from national grocery chains. Under the ancient holds that young girls who visit St. Roch Cemetery oaks along St. Roch and Elysian Fields avenues, after visiting eight St. Joseph’s altars on St. Joseph’s Creole cottages and shotgun houses are gradually Day will marry the man of their choice. Back outside taking on a fresh coat of paint and new hope. A the cemetery, the avenue diverges around public park is underway for the formerly industrial Independence Park. Popularly known as St. Roch Press Street corridor, and a streetcar line will soon Playground, this New Orleans Recreation connect St. Claude Avenue with the city’s business Department facility has been a launching ground for and tourist centers. For New Marigny, challenges neighborhood baseball clubs since the 1940s.The remain, but things are looking up. two-block long green space faces Our Lady Star of Annual Neighborhood Events • August: Night Out Against Crime LIVING WITH HISTORY • October: Preservation Resource Center’s IN NEW ORLEANS’ NEIGHBORHOODS Rebuilding Together program

Neighborhood Organizations eeww • Crescent City Peace Alliance NN • Faubourg Franklin Foundation rriiggnnyy • Faubourg St. Roch Improvement Association MMaa onvenient to both New Orleans’ Central 1798 Pierre Philippe de Marigny acquires Business District and the Vieux Carré, historic New Dubreuil Plantation Circle Food Store 1800 Marquis Antoine Xavier Bernard 1522 St. Bernard Avenue Marigny, also called Faubourg St. Roch, has all the Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville A TRADITION IN NEW ORLEANS makings of a desirable inherits from Pierre Philippe de Marigny We are still here and still serving the community. C downtown neighbor- 1803 Saving You Money on Groceries 1806 Nicholas de Finiels develops street Services, Bill Payments hood. Industrialization plan for Marigny; engineer Barthelemy BellSouth • Entergy • Sewer & Water Board and flight to the suburbs Lafon contracts to lay out the street grid We Accept Payment For: hit this area hard, how- 1810 Marigny extends original subdivision, American Express E Mobil (formerly Voicestream) MCI/MCI Worldcom Wireless Ford Motor Credit asking Lafon to plot area now known Chevron Toyota Financial Services Shell Gas Card Macy’s ever, and the construc- Discover Card AT & T Target Visa Card Sam’s Club as “New Marigny” GMAC Cingular Wireless Verizon Wireless Sprint/Sprint PCS tion of I-10 over a main 1831 Pontchartrain Railroad (a.k.a. “Smoky Mervyn’s Dish Network Capital One Credit Card Texaco Sears JC Penney Dillard’s Wal-Mart thoroughfare in the Mary”), 2nd oldest railroad in U.S., opens on Elysian Fields 1960s sent many resi- 1832 World’s largest cotton press opens on dents and businesses present Press Street packing. By the 1990s 1836 New Marigny, with Faubourg Marigny, established as Third Municipality of residents were faced the city with separate government with the effects of 1852 All municipalities combined into single decades of poverty, neg- city government of New Orleans 1850-70 Fashionable Esplanade Avenue draws lect and poor urban planning. In 1995 a group of wealthier Creoles away from Marigny Published by determined residents banded together to close a and New Marigny PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER notorious bar and forged a strong neighborhood 1867 Yellow fever outbreak prompts Lutheran OF NEW ORLEANS . coalition in the process. Since then, the same com- Reverend Peter Leonard Thevis to pledge R J

923 TCHOUPITOULAS STREET

R mitted residents, under the banner of the Crescent construction of shrine to St. Roch if his NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70130 E congregation is spared N 504/581-7032 N City Peace Alliance, have worked with Preservation O

1874 St. Roch Cemetery begun C www.prcno.org Resource Center’s Rebuilding Together program to 1876 St. Roch Shrine and Cemetery dedicated; N O

T paint and repair dozens of houses for elderly and Faubourg Franklin renamed Faubourg L O St. Roch T Since 1974 the Preservation Resource Center : disabled homeowners. They’ve also formed partner- O 1895 Drainage improvements enable T ships with local police to address crime, taken a has promoted the preservation, restoration O

development beyond Peoples Street H 1921 Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, a.k.a. and revitalization of New Orleans’ historic P systematic approach to blighted housing, and Industrial Canal, built below New Marigny neighborhoods and architecture. organized neighborhood tours and clean-ups. 1960s I-10 constructed over N. Claiborne Ave. PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW ORLEANS Creole landowner Bernard de Marigny sold the 1995 Faubourg St. Roch Improvement INVITES YOU TO EXPLORE THE LOCAL SIDE OF LIFE lots in his 1806 subdivision, Faubourg Marigny, Association founded This brochure is made possible by a generous grant IN NEW MARIGNY, A NEIGHBORHOOD WITH 1994 New Marigny established as National from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities MANY CHALLENGES, MUCH HOPE, AND so quickly that he extended the development just Register Historic District DEDICATED HARD-WORKING CITIZENS. four years later. Sales of the affordable, modest-