History
The 1850 House occupies part of the Lower Pontalba Building on Jackson Square in New Orleans’ French Quarter and evokes domestic life in the city during the antebellum period. Built around 1850 for Micaela Almonester, Baroness de Pontalba, the Pontalba Buildings combined shops at street level with elegant upper-floor residences and became rental homes for affluent merchants and their families. City records show households that included children, servants, and enslaved people. Rather than recreate one family’s home, the house interprets the tastes, prosperity, and social structure of mid-19th-century New Orleans through period furnishings, decorative arts, and paintings linked to the city’s artistic and commercial world.
Hear stories like this as you drive
ExploreHere reads historical markers out loud as you pass them: over 325,000 stories across the US. No account needed.
4.7 · 800+ ratings · Free
FIND IT
New Orleans, Louisiana · United States
