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Popular Things To Do | Miscellaneous Things To Do Tips | All Tips (3) If I was in better shape, I'd do walking tour like this one that Lee W. Nelson has (with photos) on his iNetTours.com website.
Start a block from St. Charles avenue at 2340 Prytania St. Go down First (away from St. Charles) to the former home of Archie and Peyton Manning (quarterbacks must run in the Manning family).
Cross Coliseum St... a double-galleried town house at 1331 First Street .. built in the 1860's ... down Coliseum Street toward Philip Street ..to a row of eight shotgun houses known as Coliseum Street Row or sometimes the Seven Sisters. (See my NOLA Architecture tip)..
Back to First Street and ..[cross] Chestnut ..to the house that was Anne Rice's setting for her Witching Hour novels. She owns this house. If a long black limo is parked in front then she's 'at home'.
The Rice family also owns Claiborne Cottage which she purchased in 1995 and used as the setting for her novel Violin. ..
Continue on First to Magazine, then turn right and walk one block to Second Street. Go down Second Street to Camp. Turn left when you get back to Prytania
..the Women's Opera Guild House at 2504 Prytania Street. [and].. at 2523 Prytania Street is another house owned by Anne Rice. Once an active Catholic chapel the building is known as Our Mother of Perpetual Help Chapel.
.. on your right just after you cross Third Street [is] the Briggs-Staub house, 2605 Prytania Street, has a matching Gothic guest house (built as servants quarters) that repeats the lines of the main cottage. The original owner - Charles Biggs employed Irish servants instead of slaves..
Colonel Short's Villa, or the Short-Favrot House, just off Prytania Street at 1448 Fourth Street has a fence [like].. the Cornstalk Hotel..
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 is also in the Garden District. The entrance is on Washington Avenue between Prytania and Coliseum. I have no pictures of it, so this is a generic one from St. Louis #3 Leave a Comment Directions: Garden DistrictWebsite: http://www.inetours.com/New_Orleans/Garden_District.html
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One good and relatively cheap way to see the Garden District is from the national historic landmark St. Charles Streetcar which travels over 13 miles from Canal Street, through the Garden district, past Loyola and Tulane Universities and Audubon Park - 165 years ago, it was called the Carrollton Railroad and carried passengers between the French Quarter and the resort town of Carrollton. You can ride all the way to where it takes a right-hand turn at Riverbend to continue up Carrollton Avenue.
There are some very lovely and famous Garden District Mansions (like the one with the famous corn fence) that are not on Saint Charles, but many of the sights are there. Plus you can go to the zoo. Leave a Comment Website: http://www.regionaltransit.org/routes/route.php?route=12&days=wd&x=8&y=7
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You can go to the zoo by riding the John James Audubon up the river 7 miles from the Aquarium. But you can also take the St. Charles streetcar. The zoo is in Audubon Park. This park is privately owned - it is not a national, state or city park. The entrance on St. Charles Avenue designed by John Charles Olmsted was built by the Audubon Commission over three quarters of a century ago. In 1884 this park was the site of the World’s Fair including a building covering 30 acres.
Both the zoo and the aquarium have a white aligator, and the zoo and the aquarium have a combined ticket if you want to compare them.
Ticket Prices: Zoo only Aquarium + Zoo
Adult: $12 $22
Child (2-12): $7 $14
Senior (65+): $9 $18
The Zoo opens 7 days a week at 9:30 am except for:
Mardi Gras day, the first Friday in May, Thanksgiving day and Christmas day.
Summer Hours: (April 2 to November 5, 2005)
weekdays — 9:30 am to 5:00 pm (last ticket sold at 4:00 pm)
weekends — 9:30 am to 6:00 pm (last ticket sold at 5:00 pm)
Winter Hours: (November 6, 2004 to April 1, 2005)
Monday thru Sunday— 9:30 am to 5:00 pm
(last ticket sold at 4:00 pm) Leave a Comment Address: 6500 Magazine StreetPhone: (866) ITS-A-ZOODirections: Via I 10, exit at 232 (Carrollton Avenue) & go S. Cross CLAIBORNE and ST. CHARLES. Take a LEFT on LEAKE AVE (aka RIVER ROAD). Past BROADWAY, LEAKE AVE will turn into MAGAZINE STREET. The Zoo will be immediately on the RIGHT. Turn at the lions.Website: http://www.auduboninstitute.org/zoo/index.php
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on July 8, 2005
