French Quarter Sightseeing Featured Stories

By: Tara McLellanTop to bottom: Hové Parfumeurs Owner Amy van Calsem Wendel, Perfumed strips each featuring hand-blended Hové scents, Hové room scents and scented candles.When visiting Hové Parfumeurs in the heart of the French Quarter there are two things you can be sure of - the...

By: Sally ReevesTop to bottom: The French Style Par Terre Garden of the Beauregard-Keyes House; An Ornamental Garden Wall of the Place d'Armes HotelAsk Maria Stankus what she does for a living and she’ll tell you she does nothing. In a sense that’s true, but she does nothing so...

By: Jyl BensonArtists, architecture & entertainers near Jackson SquareBefore 1788, the French Quarter encompassed the entirety of New Orleans. Today the “old square “ (Vieux Carre), a six by twelve block parcel of land set on the inside of a bend in the Mississippi River,...

By: FrenchQuarter.com StaffOctober 21, 2005 - Imagine the skankiest, stinkinest, nastiest, knock-you-down, most sickening smell in the world, then add some. New Orleanians returning home weeks after evacuating for the hurricane faced refrigerators from Hell among the clean-up miseries. Most...

Never-before-heard oral histories highlight American sacrifices in War's turning point.The National World War II Museum in New Orleans presents a special exhibition on the Battle of Midway, one of the most pivotal - and uncertain - military battles of World War II. Incredible Victory: The...