New Orleans Garden District Walking Tour: Mansions and Lafayette Cemetery

Itinerary
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Stop At: Garden District, St Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70130-5968

Your tour begins in the French Quarter, where you'll board a comfortable, air-conditioned coach and travel to the quieter and more genteel Garden District. This elegant historical area, known for its marvelous examples of Greek Revival and Italianate architecture and lovely gardens, was once the site of a number of plantations. Learn from your guide how in the 19th century it was sold off piece by piece primarily to wealthy Americans who built the lavish mansions that still dominate this district.

See mansions belonging to local author Anne Rice, actress Sandra Bullock, actor John Goodman, and former New Orleans Saints' quarterback — and father of Peyton and Eli — Archie Manning. Stop for an exclusive tour of a stately Garden District home built around the end of the American Civil War in 1865.

Admire an unusual cast-iron fence resembling a row of cornstalks and learn the legend of how a southern colonel had it made in the mid-1800s to comfort wife, homesick for Iowa.

Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes

Stop At: Lafayette Cemetery No.1, Washington Ave, New Orleans, LA 70130

Stop to walk around Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, the oldest planned cemetery in New Orleans. With the elaborate tombs and statuary, you'll see why these above ground cemeteries are called "Cities of the Dead."

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Women's Guild of the New Orleans Opera, 2504 Prytania St # 70130, New Orleans, LA 70130-5902

This is the only Garden District tour to go inside an exquisite historic Garden District mansion.

Duration: 15 minutes