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The courthouse is also the
setting for much of the Old
Algiers RiverFest, a weekend-
long festival celebrating
the role of the area in the
development of jazz. Visitors
can enjoy great live music,
various arts and crafts, and
sample typical New Orleans
cuisine. The festival takes place
in April each year.

3 Spanish Plaza
2 Canal St. Map 5 D4. v Riverfront.
@ 3, 55, 57. Open 24 hrs daily.
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This small plaza at the entrance
River view from the Woldenberg Riverfront Park to the Outlet Collection at
1 Woldenberg century, it was used as a depot Riverwalk is a good place to
take a rest and enjoy an
Riverfront Park for imported slaves, who were uninterrupted view of the river.
held here before being sold on. A fountain stands at its center,
2 Canal St. Map 5 D3. v Riverfront.
@ 3, 55, 57. 7 It is possible that Algiers is the surrounded by a circular mosaic
site of the origins of jazz, as bench on which the coats of
The 16-acre Woldenberg Park single-line melodies were arms of Spain are depicted.
extends all the way along probably used by the slaves to The Creole Queen paddle-
the riverfront from St. Peter communicate and to comfort wheeler departs from the
Street to the Outlet Collection themselves and their families. Plaza and takes passengers
at Riverwalk, providing a The area was not connected downriver to the Chalmette
pleasant garden setting directly to the rest of the city Battlefield Park, the site of
studded with contemporary until a bridge was built in the Andrew Jackson’s victory at the
sculpture. From Jackson late 1950s, so it has a separate, Battle of New Orleans (see p19).
Square, visitors can access small-town feel. It has beautiful Rangers provide a 40-minute
Woldenberg Riverfront Park late-Victorian churches, homes, tour of the site. Adjacent to
via Washington Artillery Park parks, and businesses, and at the battlefield is Chalmette
and the Moon Walk. Here, the heart is the Romanesque National Cemetery, where
many of the city’s street Revival-style Algiers Courthouse thousands of Union soldiers
performers can be found; the dating from 1896, which can be are buried. An antebellum
latter is named after Moon seen from the French Quarter house, the Malus-Beauregard
Landrieu, who is widely across the river. It continues home, stands on park property.
regarded as paving the way for to serve the residents of the This residence was built in
the first black mayor, “Dutch” entire city as a courthouse, 1833 and purchased in 1880
Morial, to be elected in 1978 and is home to various by the son of General P. G. T.
(see p25). The park is open municipal offices. Beauregard (see p73).
from dawn till dusk daily.

2 Ferry to Algiers
The ferry is at the end of Canal St.
Map 5 D4. v Riverfront. @ 55, 57.
∑ friendsoftheferry.org
From the foot of Canal Street, a
free ferry crosses the Mississippi
to the historic neighborhood
of Algiers on the West Bank,
offering spectacular views
of the New Orleans skyline
on the short journey.
Algiers was established in
1719 and is the second oldest
part of the city. For over a Fountain at the center of the Spanish Plaza

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