Preservation Resource Center

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If you're interested in the architecture of New Orleans or a self-guided walking tour, then start here. The welcoming Preservation Resource Center, located inside the 1853 Leeds-Davis building, offers free pamphlets with walking-tour maps for virtually every part of town. The helpful staff shares information about everything from cycling routes to renovating a historic home. Check the website for details about the Shotgun House tour in March and the popular Holiday Home tour in December.

The neighborhood brochures are also available online.

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  • Old above-ground graves in Lafayette Cemetery Number 1, Garden District.

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  • High angle view of St. Louis Cathedral and Jackson Square in French Quarter, New Orleans, LA, USA

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  • A crowd on Royal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

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    Royal Street, with its rows of high-end antique shops, galleries and potted ferns hanging from cast-iron balconies, is the elegant yin to well known…

  • Civil War Museum & Ogden Museum of Southern Art

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    The sculpture garden that sits just outside the New Orleans Museum of Art in City Park is a wooded quilt of streams, pathways, lovers' benches and, of…

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