Free Garden District and Lafayette Cemetery #1 Walking Tour

The Garden District, or the 'City of Lafayette', as it was once known, is just a 10 minute streetcar ride from the French Quarter, but it feels like a world apart.  Excluded from early 19th Century Creole society, newly arrived Yankees got to work creating their own city.  The result is one of New Orleans's most desired neighborhoods and one of the nation's most beautifully preserved city districts and it's home to the rich, the famous, the strange and the dead!   

Join Free Tours by Foot as we stroll the leafy, magnolia shaded streets of the Garden District and the gothic and a city of the dead.  This tour is not just mansions and manicured gardens, but stories of legends, tragedy, epidemics, lost causes, movie stars, celebrity chefs and haunted spirits.

Sights we cover on the tour:

• Colonel Shrts Villa
• Briggs-Staub House
• Commander Restaurant
• Toby's Corner
• Manning House
• Brevard-Mahat-Rice House
• Rosegate
• Payne-Strachan House
• Lafayette Cemetery*
• and much more...

*Lafayette Cemetery is CLOSED on Sundays and on any city-wide holidays. Being closed never stops us from talking, so we'll still visit the Cemetery area and tell you the stories from outside the gates. To respect the dead on their day of rest and city officials on theirs, we will NOT go inside Lafayette Cemetery grounds on Sundays and/or Holidays.