The Payne-Strachan House stands out for its high-shouldered, cream-colored exterior and the distinctive, delicate ironwork tracing the wide double galleries. Built in eighteen forty-nine, this Greek Revival residence served as a temporary…
Garden District Antebellum Mansions
Walk among the grandest Greek Revival and Italianate estates of New Orleans' historic American sector. This route guides you past towering columns, lush live oaks, and spectacular cast-iron galleries built during the height of the 19th-century cotton boom.
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1. Payne‑Strachan House (also known as “Jefferson Davis House”)
2. Buckner Mansion
The Buckner Mansion features a wrap-around gallery with massive Corinthian columns that dwarf the sidewalks of Jackson Avenue. Henry Sullivan Buckner, a wealthy cotton king, built the estate in eighteen fifty-six to prove his financial…
3. Pritchard-Pigot House
The Pritchard-Pigot House features a double gallery facade lined with cast-iron lace that appears remarkably lighter than the heavy brickwork common in the Garden District. Built in eighteen fifty-three for a local merchant, the house…
4. Women's Guild Home
The Women’s Guild Home on Prytania Street wears a cast-iron gallery that drapes over the sidewalk like heavy lace. This house began as the residence of a wealthy merchant before the Civil War, but it spent the next century housing widows…
5. Our Mother of Perpetual Help
The chapel of Our Mother of Perpetual Help sits behind a massive, two-story facade of yellow brick and white stone, dominated by twin towers that rise above the surrounding oaks. Built in nineteen twenty-five, this structure served as the…
6. Walter Grinnan Robinson House
The Walter Grinnan Robinson House stands out for its massive, double-gallery facade held up by heavy square columns and topped with a deep, bracketed cornice. Built in eighteen fifty-nine, this residence was designed by architect Henry…
7. Colonel Short’s Villa
The cast-iron fence surrounding Colonel Short’s Villa features a distinctive pattern of morning glories and cornstalks. In eighteen fifty-nine, Colonel Robert Short commissioned this fence from a foundry in Philadelphia to surprise his…