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unusual facts about The French Quarter



John McCrady

When he resumed his work he focused less attention to African American communities and concentrated on rural life, Mardi Gras, and The French Quarter.


see also

Basin Street Blues

The Basin Street of the title refers to the main street of Storyville, the notorious red-light district of the early 20th-century New Orleans, just north of the French Quarter.

Bourbon Street

This changed in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when the Storyville Red Light district was constructed on Basin Street adjacent to the French Quarter .

Esplanade Avenue, New Orleans

Near the river on the French Quarter side is the old New Orleans Mint building.

Jacob Haight Morrison

The French Quarter has received protection as a National Historic District, as have other significant areas of New Orleans.

Louisiana Music Factory

The store was opened in February 1992 by two founders Jerry Brock and Barry Smith on Peters Street in the French Quarter.

Mardi Gras in the United States

In 1926, Ferde Grofe wrote an orchestral cycle called the Mississippi Suite, the last movement featuring a musical depiction of Mardi Gras in the French Quarter.