Page 106 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - New Orleans

104  NE W ORLEANS AREA B Y AREA

1 St. Charles and ascended to a
Avenue Streetcar powerful position by
the time he was 30. He
See pp106–7. was one of the movers
and shakers who
2 Lafayette developed the area
above Canal Street,
Cemetery fashioning it into a
Second Municipality
1400 block of Washington Ave.
Map 7 F3. v St. Charles. @ 11, 14. comparable to the
Open 7am–2:30pm Mon–Fri, 7am– downtown Creole
noon Sat, 8am–4pm Sun. Closed community below
public hols. 8 ∑ lafayette Canal Street. It had its
cemetery.org own fashionable hotel,
the St. Charles, which
This walled cemetery was laid was equal to the St.
out in 1833 by Benjamin Louis and mirrored its
Buisson to accommodate the Creole counterpart
residents of the adjacent in other ways.
Garden District. The second One of the most
Protestant cemetery to open striking memorials in
in New Orleans, it is the resting this cemetery is the one
place of many German and built in 1852 to Greek columns, Claiborne Cottage
British Protestants, as well commemorate 3 Claiborne
as numerous Americans the Jefferson Fire
who had migrated here Company #22. It is Cottage
from the east coast. By embellished with a typical 2524 St. Charles Ave. Map 8 A3.
1840, it was full, mostly with pumper. In her book, v St. Charles. @ 11, 14.
yellow fever Interview with the Closed to the public.
victims, and Vampire, Anne
a new cemetery Rice often gives The history of this Greek Revival-
was needed. Angel statue at Lafayette her characters style cottage is disputed, but
Among the notables free rein to wander the plaque in front states that
buried here are Confederate around this cemetery. The it was built in 1857 for Louise
General Harry T. Hays and author herself staged a mock Claiborne, the daughter of the
Samuel Jarvis Peters (1801–85), burial here in 1995 to promote first governor of Louisiana.
an influential city politician and her book, Memnoch the Devil. She was married to Mandeville
land developer. A Canadian, The wall vaults were added Marigny, the youngest son of
Peters arrived in New Orleans to the cemetery in 1858. Bernard de Marigny (see p84),
who introduced dice to the
United States. His gambling
friends thought he resembled a
frog, and so he was nicknamed
“Le Crapaud,” after which the
game “craps” takes its name.
Some experts date the
house to 1860 and claim that
it was built for a Virginian,
James Dameron.
4 Briggs-Staub
House
2605 Prytania St. Map 7 F3.
v St. Charles. @ 11, 14.
Closed to the public.
A rarity in New Orleans, this
Gothic Revival home was built for
gambler Cuthbert Bullitt in 1849.
The Gothic style is uncommon
in this part of the city, because
many Protestant Americans
Above-ground vaults at Lafayette Cemetery claimed it reminded them of

104-105_EW_New_Orl.indd 104 05/08/16 3:49 pm
Eyewitness Travel LAYERS PRINTED:
Catalogue template “UK” LAYER
(Source v2.7)
Date 1st October 2013
Size 125mm x 217mm