National Historic Landmark · neighborhood · New Orleans, Louisiana

1520 Josephine Street

New Orleans neighborhood in Louisiana, United States. Added to the National Register in 1971, and a National Historic Landmark.

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Photos via Wikimedia Commons · 6 in the Commons category

What it is

Wikipedia · Garden District, New Orleans

The Garden District is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. A subdistrict of the Central City/Garden District Area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission are: St. Charles Avenue to the north, 1st Street to the east, Magazine Street to the south, and Toledano Street to the west. The National Historic Landmark district extends a little farther.

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The record

National Register of Historic Places
Property typeBuilding
AddressBounded by Carondelet, Josephine, and Magazine Sts., and Louisiana Ave., New Orleans, LA
CountyOrleans County
ListedJun 21, 1971
Reference number71000358
Type of placeneighborhood, historic district
DesignationsNational Historic Landmark
Contributing resources951 buildings

The nomination form, the document that argues why this place matters, is in the National Archives: Read the nomination ↗

Visiting

Open to the public
AddressBounded by Carondelet, Josephine, and Magazine Sts., and Louisiana Ave., New Orleans, LA
Coordinates29.93471, -90.07940 · Directions ↗
Nearest national park unitNew Orleans Jazz National Historical Park · 2 mi · on Park Atlas
This one you can go inside. Hours and admission change with the season; the website above has the current schedule.

Explore

Why you would stay

Reference

Exists because it is true

Sources

Location, dates, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 71000358. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The description under "What it is" is the opening of the Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA.