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Guided Walking Tour Through The Stunning Garden District

This is a private tour, with one of our excellent professional Tour Guides reserved exclusively for your party, it lasts 2.5 hours and is full of architectural information, it is also fun and historical

Price is $450 flat fee, for any size group up to 28 people.

Meet your tour guide to start (and end up) at "The Rink", corner of Prytania St. and Washington Ave.

The Garden District history is a continuation of New Orleans amazingly colorful history, it is like: Chapter 2... The antebellum period, the 1850s. New Orleans at that time is one of the largest and richest cities in America. The Civil War, the Yankee occupation, the Reconstruction, and post- Reconstruction tumultuous period! It's all about the immigrants - Irish, German, then Sicilian, who they were, who they became!

It includes:

  • Squires house on St. Charles Ave.
  • Buckner Mansion on Jackson Ave.
  • The 7 Sisters 'shotguns' homes
  • Italianade and Greek Revival architecture
  • Sandra Bullock's Swiss house
  • Benjamin Button's house
  • The Elms Mansion on St. Charles
  • Lafayette Cemetery
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