The Payne-Strachan House at eleven thirty-four First Street is a classic Greek Revival mansion defined by its tall white columns and wraparound balcony. Built in eighteen forty-nine for cotton merchant Jacob Payne, the residence is known…
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 dominates the corner of Jackson Avenue with a two-story portico held up by forty-eight fluted Ionic and Corinthian columns. Built in eighteen fifty-six for the cotton kingpin Henry Sullivan Buckner, this…
3. Pritchard-Pigot House
The Pritchard-Pigot House, located at fourteen oh seven First Street, is identifiable by its prominent, white-columned Neoclassical Revival facade. Although it now appears as a grand, symmetrical mansion, its current form is the result of…
4. Women's Guild Home
The Women’s Guild Home is a Greek Revival mansion distinguished by its octagonal bay and decorative Italianate metalwork. Built in eighteen fifty-nine for merchant Edward Davis, the house serves today as the headquarters for the Women’s…
5. Our Mother of Perpetual Help
The three-story mansion at twenty-five twenty-three Prytania Street is defined by its tall, shuttered windows and an elaborate cast-iron gallery that wraps around its exterior. Designed by architect Henry Howard in eighteen fifty-seven for…
6. Walter Grinnan Robinson House
The Walter Grinnan Robinson House at fourteen fifteen Third Street is recognizable by the unique curve of its two-story galleries and the fluted columns that support them. Designed in the Italianate style, the mansion features Doric…
7. Colonel Short’s Villa
Colonel Short’s Villa is an Italianate-style mansion at the corner of Fourth and Prytania Streets. Built in eighteen fifty-nine for Kentucky commission merchant Robert Short, the house is recognized by a distinctive cast-iron fence that…