Proceed to Tchoupitoulas Street/South Peters Street exit, continue to Convention Center Boulevard, right on Convention Center Boulevard, continue to Henderson Street., left on Henderson Street, continue to Port of New Orleans Place, left on Port of New Orleans Place to visitor parking lot on right.įROM RIVER-BOUND PONTCHARTRAIN EXPRESSWAY:Įxit at Tchoupitoulas Street/South Peters Street exit, continue to Convention Center Boulevard, right on Convention Center Boulevard, continue to Henderson Street, left on Henderson Street, continue to Port of New Orleans Place, left on Port of New Orleans Place to visitor parking lot on right. Today, live music continues on this site at events including the French Quarter Festival and the Creole Tomato Festival.DRIVING DIRECTIONS TO ADMINISTRATION BUILDING:Ĭonvention Center Boulevard to Henderson Street, left on Henderson Street, continue to Port of New Orleans Place, left on Port of New Orleans Place to visitor parking lot on right.Įxit at Business 90W/Westbank (locally known as Pontchartrain Expressway). Once one of the most dangerous streets in the country, in the middle of one of the South’s economic centers, Gallatin Street’s former tenements and vice dens were demolished to expand the French Market in 1935. In the 1920s, the writer Lyle Saxon described Gallatin Street as a quiet, almost haunted, area, reserved for vendors at the nearby markets. The dance houses and brothels on Gallatin Street, outside of Storyville’s limits, became illegal. In 1897, City Ordinance 13032 created the boundaries of Storyville, a red-light district, where musicians such as Tony Jackson and Jelly Roll Morton would go on to provide the nightly soundtrack. She was eventually deemed too rough for even one of the roughest dance houses on Gallatin Street. Mary Jane Jackson, better known as Bricktop, who worked at Archy Murphy’s brothel, compiled a record of assaults throughout New Orleans. While women were often victims of violent crime here, some were also perpetrators. ![]() Prostitution, said to be the second most profitable business in town, proliferated on Gallatin Street. There was rarely a fee to enter, but men were encouraged to buy a drink for their dance partner at the end of each dance, keeping the bartenders happy and the patrons “loose.” The port of New Orleans during this time was booming, keeping a constant flow of men and women through Gallatin Street’s infamous barrooms, dance houses, and brothels. ![]() We pause, look in, and a sailor with a blue shirt and trousers and a blue flat cap on the back of his head, half grunts, half hiccoughs as he says, ‘Sail in if yer after fun an’ frolickin’.’Īlthough arguably on the decline by the time this article was published, Gallatin Street sheltered some of the most dangerous criminals, street gangs, and con men of the mid-1800s in New Orleans. We reach the doorway of a large room, whence the music proceeds. Squalor and misery are sleeping above in chambers so dark and damp as the cold pavestones below. But the houses with the wet bricks and the dark broken windows are inhabited by hundreds of human beings. Gallatin street has a puddle here and there on the sidewalk, but these cannot be seen, as the moon has not come yet over the edge of the tall, seemingly untenanted houses by which the street passes. Gallatin street is wet and slippery, it is dimly lighted, for rows of tall houses with battered, broken shutters, and windows unlighted, look down on the stones below. A visitor to the street in 1873 described the scene for the Times-Picayune: Content provided by the New Orleans Jazz Museum, adapted from a tour curated by Jessica Anne Dauterive, Greg Lambousy, William Jones, Sean Simonson, and Ellie Ginsburg for .Ī small, two-block stretch called Gallatin Street, now called French Market Place, was once the headquarters of vice in New Orleans.
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