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State: Louisiana
Historical haunted places
Historic place
New Orleans, LA
A Royal Street hotel where a complex site history has become inseparable from a repeated haunted-hotel narrative.
Venue marketing
Historic place
New Orleans, LA
A French Quarter hotel built from the intertwined histories of a theater, ballroom, convent, school, and modern hospitality.
Venue marketing
Historic place
New Orleans, LA
Architect James Gallier Jr. designed the Royal Street townhouse as his family residence in the late 1850s, incorporating fashionable design, climate adaptations, domestic technology, and service spaces.
Venue marketing
Historic place
New Orleans, LA
A restored Federal-style French Quarter residence where architecture, commerce, urban slavery, domestic labor, preservation, and oral tradition meet.
Reported
Historic place
New Orleans, LA
An 1826 French Quarter house whose architecture, enslaved labor, famous residents, preservation, and ghost stories demand a careful reading of fact and memory.
Reported
Historic place
New Orleans, LA
A family-run French Quarter landmark whose literary connections and Carousel Bar accompany a long catalog of ghost stories.
Reported
Historic place
New Orleans, LA
The house at 1140 Royal Street is associated with Delphine LaLaurie, whose abuse of enslaved people was exposed after an 1834 fire. The event is documented, but later retellings added gruesome details that cannot all be verified. The present structure was substantially rebuilt after the fire and later expanded. It is a private residence, not a museum, and its history should be approached as a record of slavery and violence rather than as a horror attraction.
Legend
Historic place
Baton Rouge, LA
Completed in 1850, James Dakin's Gothic Revival statehouse witnessed secession, Union occupation, a devastating Civil War fire, reconstruction, later political conflict, restoration, and conversion to a political history museum.
Legend
Historic place
Baton Rouge, LA
The late-eighteenth-century Creole house and surviving landscape interpret plantation agriculture, French Creole culture, architecture, domestic life, preservation, and the labor and lives of enslaved people.
Legend
Haunted towns and cities
Haunted town
Baton Rouge, LA
Baton Rouge developed within Houma, Bayougoula, and broader Indigenous river landscapes through French, British, Spanish, West Florida, and United States rule, slavery, plantation and port economies, war, education, industry, politics, and civil rights activism.
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