Location: Garden District
Top Things to do in Garden District
What to do and see in Garden District, Louisiana (LA): The Best Things to do
Laissez les bons temps rouler! In New Orleans the good times are perpetually rolling down Bourbon Street, which, thanks to the city’s annual Mardi Gras celebration, has quite a party animal reputation. Once you’ve soaked up the scenery of the historic French Quarter, tour the elegant Garden District and meet the colorful characters of Frenchmen Street. Experience the city's supernatural vibe at the Voodoo Museum or by taking a guided ghost or vampire tour through taverns, alleyways, and cemeteries.
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1. Racontours
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5.0 based on 436 reviews
Racontours, New Orleans is a walking tour company dedicated to sharing stories in an immersive Southern experience. Our tours are for story lovers and history buffs alike whose curiosity goes beyond mere linear dates and facts. While we offer 2 tours, we can only provide 1 tour a day on a first come first served basis. Reservations must be made with a minimum 24 hours advance notice. Our Garden District tour is a 6 hour experience that includes a 4 course lunch at the world renowned Commanders Palace! Our Voodoo tour is a 4-5 hour experience which takes place in the French Quarter. It is a fun and touching examination of how this often misunderstood ancient African faith evolved with the residents of the Vieux Carre, into what is now known as New Orleans Voodoo. Each walking tour concludes in an above ground cemetery. Join Racontours and discover the passions, loves, deceits and betrayals, that took place in our garden, below the sea. Thank you for your interest..and get ready to slow your roll!
2. New Orleans Architecture Tours
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5.0 based on 384 reviews
New Orleans Architecture Tours provides visitors with an understanding of the various New Orleans architecture styles and periods that make our city so unique. Come take a walk with us!
3. Loomed NOLA, LLC
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
Located inside The Rink (meeting spot for both Garden District tours and Cemetery tours), Loomed NOLA carries one of a kind, handwoven towels and linens from Turkey. The shop also stocks handmade goat milk soap made in nearby Poplarville, MS. The shop is a beautiful and unique place to browse and discover a truly spectacular craft.
4. Phantoms, Facts and Folklore
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5.0 based on 100 reviews
The Garden District, also known as the American section of New Orleans is on its surface a very proper wealthy neighborhood, however it has a seedy past with its own set of morose stories. The macabre tour shows celebrity homes, ghosts, crimes, vampires and the "Coven" house from American Horror Stories. Although the cemetery is closed, the tour talks about Lafayette cemetery #1 burial procedures both above and IN GROUND and the "saved by the bell story" from Destination Fear, then strolls through the Garden District. I also do plant identification, architecture and all things macabre. The French Quarter macabre tells classic tales from the darker side of the French Quarter.
5. The Spielman Gallery
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5.0 based on 8 reviews
A photographic gallery of David SPIELMAN's images from New Orleans and around the world. A wonderful to start your visit to the Garden District.
Reviewed By stlgir1 - Saint Louis, United States
Thank you to Mr Spielman for sharing his stories and insights on photography and New Orleans. If you are heading to the cemetery or Commander's Palace, it is worth a side trip to this gallery.
6. Women's Guild of the New Orleans Opera
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5.0 based on 6 reviews
Reviewed By SuzyQu15 - Brooklyn, United States
We took a walking tour of the Garden District, past all the beautiful homes, including those of celebrities, and were thrilled to be able to enter one and take a tour. This historic house was built in 1856 and is open on a limited basis for tours, but our visit was included as part of an escorted walking tour. Only the ground floor was available to see, but it was furnished in the period style and very interesting. Gorgeous stained glass window.
7. Brevard-Clapp House
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4.5 based on 11 reviews
This double-galleried house is owned by author Anne Rice and is featured in her bewitching fiction.
Reviewed By nkix - Sacramento, United States
Walking distance from Commander's Palace. The whole neighborhood is beautiful and well worth the stroll. The house was under renovation when I visited, and dimly lit, which was spooky and cool. Just be respectful as it's privately owned!
8. As You Like It Silver Shop
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4.5 based on 10 reviews
As You Like It Silver Shop specializes in estate silver. We have sterling and silver plate flatware, hollowware, and jewelry. Whatever your silver need is from mint julep cups, to coin silver spoons, to 5 light candelabras, to asparagus serving forks, we have it all. We also do repairs, re-plating, and hand engraving.
9. House of Broel's Victorian Mansion and Doll House Museum
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4.5 based on 32 reviews
Reviewed By 866TaylorB - Chicago, United States
The House of Broel is a magnificent columned mansion in New Orleans that is architecturally unique in that it was built in two periods: antebellum and high Victorian. It also is unique because Bonnie Broel, a local fashion artist, purchased the sadly neglected 1850s mansion and turned it into a showplace and museum where she could host weddings and special events and display her private collection of 60 miniature dollhouses. She also had room for an exhibit dedicated to frog farming, an industry that her father became deeply involved with after his creation of the Louisiana Frog Farm. Located at 2220 St. Charles Avenue in the historic Garden District, the House of Broel is a three-story structure that is surrounded by lush gardens and a courtyard that includes a majestic pavilion, perfect for outdoor weddings and photo shoots. The interior oozes with southern charm with crystal chandeliers, lavish decor and exquisite antiques adding to the romantic atmosphere. The second and third floors were built in 1850 by George Washington Squires. In 1884, William Renaud had the entire house elevated to accommodate a grand floor for entertaining, complete with a splendid ballroom and sumptuous parlors. The center hall showcases an enormous mirror that was added by Simon Hernsheim when he owed the house in the 1880s. The original gasolier hangs in the hall. On the second floor, the centerpiece of the dollhouse collection is the 10-foot-tall Russian Palace, with over 28 built-to-scale rooms complete with all the royal furnishings and embellishments. Ascending a graceful curving stairway to the third floor Fashion Museum, visitors are enveloped in the glamorous world of Haute Couture, Celebrity Party and Vintage Mardi Gras Gowns. This staggering collection of exquisite designer wear reads like a Who's Who of New Orleans society, from Bonnie Broel's first wedding gown to auther Anne Rice's Gothic attire to Broel's other outstanding creations designed during her reign as a leader in the southern fashion industry. And what about the collection of antiques? It includes a magnificent French desk made for the Duke of Dresden in 1850, a piece of linen from Egypt that is over 2,000 years old, a chandelier with hand-blown grapes cascading from its arms and the display of Broel's father's frog farm. As if she isn't involved enough in the activities of the House of Broel, Bonnie Broel is an ordained interfaith ministers. Upon request, she performs wedding ceremonies in the chapel.
10. Garden District Book Shop
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4.5 based on 52 reviews
Reviewed By aimeetraveler
The Garden District Bookshop is wonderful, and a must-see stop for all book lovers! The store is inside a historic building called The Rink. The store carries all different types of books. It has many books that are signed by the authors. They have a huge wall of books that are all about New Orleans. They have travel books for New Orleans, books on New Orleans history, tons of books on ghosts, spirits, and voodoo in New Orleans, and fun souvenir books on New Orleans. They also have kids books, journals, special books, new releases, and more!
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