French Quarter Tour: History and Architecture

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New Orleans

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Discover the history, architecture, and folklore of the French Quarter on this engaging walking tour. Proceeds benefit the Louisiana State Museum. Includes access to the 1850 House Museum.

Duration: 2 hours

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

1850 House Museum and Store - Ticket includes admission to the museum

What's Included

Admission to the 1850 House Museum
Historical French Quarter walking tour by a professional licensed guide

Additional Information

This French Quarter walking tour is conducted by city licensed guides and emphasize the history, architecture, and folklore of this fascinating city. Tour and store proceeds benefit Friends of the Cabildo, a non-profit volunteer group to provide support for the Louisiana State Museum. Purchasing a walking tour ticket also gets you admission to the 1850…

Location

1850 House Museum & Gift Shop

Saint Ann Street

The tail of Andrew Jackson's Horse (Statue in Jackson Square) points straight at the store. All tour guests receive a free ticket to the 1850 House Museum

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Annesf6112ja

Feb 23, 2025

Friends of the Cabildo tour - What a great way to see the French Quarter! Our guide, Louis, was very knowledgeable and shared interesting stories about the buildings and their architecture. He knew things only a seasoned guide would know—we would highly recommend.

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Rachelootp

Feb 23, 2025

Fun tour with Louis today! - We toured with Louis today and he did a fantastic job of leading us through the French Quarter on a rainy day. He’s an architect and was super knowledgeable about both the city history and architectural history of the buildings. He was also really funny.

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Lauren_g

Feb 20, 2025

Go on this Historic Walking Tour! - Our tour guide was super knowledgeable and friendly. This was a great tour! I learned fascinating information about the French, Spanish and Creole history.

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Goplaces06924978181

Feb 18, 2025

Historical visit of French Quarter - Louis was a great guide. It was enjoyable to learn about architecture in the city and to meet other people on the tour. I recommend this visit.

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Dianebraun

Feb 16, 2025

Great Tour by Louis - Louis was a fantastic tour guide. His passion for his adopted city is evident. I would recommend this tour as the guides are highly trained and volunteer to do this to help the Louisiana State Museums.

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533arjitab

Feb 15, 2025

Knowledgeable guide! - Mark was a really knowledgeable guide and shared a lot of interesting stories. I learnt a lot about the city and some key people.

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Barrbrown

Feb 13, 2025

History and architecture rolled into one! - This tour combined history, architecture and city planning all in an interesting and engaging way. Kelvin was an enthusiastic guide with a treasure trove of stories of the people of New Orleans that painted a colorful picture of life from LaSalle’s discovery of the area up to modern day. We both enjoyed the tour thoroughly!

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Bethinme

Feb 10, 2025

Outstanding tour of the French Quarter - I've taken this tour several times, always with friends who come to New Orleans and aren't familiar with the city. The guides are all volunteers and they KNOW New Orleans so well, because they LOVE New Orleans. Our guide last week had her own favorite parts of the French Quarter to show us, and the tour encompassed an extensive historical look at the most important people and events that shaped this amazing part of the city.

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H5075hpkarens

Feb 7, 2025

Do it! - Fantastic walking tour of the city! Lenora, our tour guide was superb and extremely knowledgeable. Highly recommend.

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K3446ofdonnam

Feb 17, 2025

Not as expected. - Very disappointing. The 1850 House Museum is closed for repairs; uncertain when it will reopen. Our tour group was a nice small size, and it was a lovely day. It was not what we expected. Our guide led us to several locations where she gave extensive history lessons instead of going to more interesting places and giving specific descriptions of each. Too much time spent standing for lengthy general information rather than walking and seeing more points of interest with concise descriptions.

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