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Inside, the floors and doors
are made of cypress, and
the rooms feature elegant
marble fireplaces. The three-
story service quarters, located
in a separate building off the
parterre behind the house,
are also striking. They feature
slave quarters and a kitchen
containing a rare four-burner
wood-fired stove with a
beehive oven.
0 Historic New
Orleans Collection
See pp62–3.
q Louisiana
Supreme Court
Master bedroom, the Hermann-Grima Historic House Building
8 Museum of Death in the fascinating collection.
227 Dauphine St. Map 4 C2. Tel 593- There’s a stunning array of 400 Royal St. Map 4 C2. Tel 310-2300.
@ 5. v Riverfront. Open 9am–5pm
3968. @ 5. Open 10am–6pm Mon, taxidermy, as well as a skeleton Mon–Fri. Closed public hols.
Wed–Sun. & ∑ museumofdeath. of an alligator chewing on a ∑ lasc.org
net/nola human leg bone.
The Museum of Death’s When this massive granite and
This museum is not for the exhibits are constantly marble structure was built in
faint hearted or for families evolving and its owners are 1908–10, the French Quarter
with children. For visitors with always looking out for new and was on the downslide. Erecting
an interest in the many aspects interesting local artifacts and this splendid Beaux Arts court
of mortality and possessing stories. New Orleans is a city building was an early exercise
strong stomachs, it offers a with a special relationship to in urban renewal. Despite a
macabre collection of death, and while this musuem few protests, an entire block
gruesome exhibits, including isn’t for everyone, its presence of historic 18th- and early
skulls and coffins, apparatus here is appropriate. 19th-century buildings was
used by morticians, crime and razed to make way for it. The
morgue scenes, and even Louisiana Supreme Court
artworks and letters from 9 Hermann-Grima occupied it from 1910 to 1958.
infamous serial killers. Graphic Historic House
car accident photographs, a
real shrunken head, and 820 St. Louis St. Map 4 C2. Tel 525-
newspaper front pages 5661. @ 5. Open 10am–3:30pm
recording momentous and Mon–Tue, Thu–Sat. Closed public
tragic moments in American hols. & 8 7 ∑ hgghh.org
and world history also feature
This gabled brick house stands
out from those around it
because it is one of the few
examples of American Federal-
style architecture in the French
Quarter. William Brand built it
in 1831 for Samuel Hermann,
a German-Jewish merchant.
Unfortunately, he lost his
fortune in 1837 and had to sell
the house to Judge Felix Grima.
The house features a central
doorway with a fanlight and
marble steps; another window
Artworks, clothing, and other memorabilia with a fanlight graces the Facade of the Louisiana Supreme
on sale in the Museum of Death shop second floor. Court Building

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