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French Quarter Walking Tour With 1850 House Museum Admission
4.9
582 Ratings
New Orleans
Discover the history, architecture, and folklore of the French Quarter on this engaging walking tour. Proceeds benefit the Louisiana State Museum. Includes access to the 1850 House Museum.
Duration:
2 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- 1850 House Museum and Store - Ticket includes admission to the museum
What's Included
- Admission to the 1850 House Museum
- Historical French Quarter walking tour by a professional licensed guide
Additional Information
This French Quarter walking tour is conducted by city licensed guides and emphasize the history, architecture, and folklore of this fascinating city. Tour and store proceeds benefit Friends of the Cabildo, a non-profit volunteer group to provide support for the Louisiana State Museum. Purchasing a walking tour ticket also gets you admission to the 1850 House Museum, above the store, that shows what life was like in a typical Pontalba Apartment in the 1850s. Restroom is provided for walking tour guests as well.
Tours go out rain or shine.
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
Location
1850 House Museum & Gift Shop
Saint Ann Street
The tail of Andrew Jackson's Horse (Statue in Jackson Square) points straight at the store. All tour guests receive a free ticket to the 1850 House Museum
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Sheilas520
Jul 29, 2024
Great walking tour of the French Quarter! - This was an amazing, informative, educational, and all around fun tour. Louis knows so much about the history and area and enthusiastically shared. He willingly took pictures of us and shared favorite spots to eat. He knows this beautiful city so well! I highly recommend taking this walking tour which supports the historical preservation.
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Passport27943015238
Jul 14, 2024
Great History tour of the French Quarter - Great experience and very informative. It's given by volunteers who are part of the Friends of the Cabildo organization. Our guide, Joanna, knew so much about the history of the French Quarter and it was clear she deeply cared about her city and it's history
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Mslaw2u
Jul 7, 2024
Walking tour of French Quarter - Edmond was a very pleasant and knowledgeable tour guide. He doscussed lots of interesting cultural history, government and architeture. He was a pleasure.
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Betwit
Jun 27, 2024
Lovely Guide, Engrossing Tour - Lenora was an excellent guide! She described very interesting and compelling historic buildings and people that we referred back to for days.
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I857mealexl
Jun 24, 2024
The best tour for history nerds by far! - The French Quarter Walking Tour is a must for anyone interested in New Orleans' wild, diverse, funky history! They will show you what makes New Orleans such a unique city, and are happy to take you even if you're a tour of one (thanks Kyran!).
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Donbo3453ee
Jun 18, 2024
French Quarter Walking Tour with Louis - Our tour guide Louis gave an excellent and fascinating tour. We learned so much about the history of New Orleans, the French Quarter and architectural origins of the cathedral, cabildo, and many other important buildings. We loved the stories Louis shared with us to bring the history to life!
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765kadencel
Jun 18, 2024
Great tour - Louis was amazing during our tour on the architecture of New Orleans. He has background in architecture, making it very easy and interesting for anyone!
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V9442lxsusanb
Jun 17, 2024
French Quarter history and architecture revealed! - We had a wonderful 2 hour tour of the Quarter with Louis, who is an architect and incredibly knowledgable about Louisiana history and architecture. It was hot and humid but Louis found shady spots to explain what we were seeing, which gave me a much better appreciation for the French, Spanish, Italian, Creole and American influences on the architectural styles. Highly recommend! The tour included tickets to the 1850 museum, but we elected to return another day for that.
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Amyln4223cv
Jun 17, 2024
Delightful walking tour of history and culture - On Sunday 6.17, I had the pleasure of going on a delightful walking tour with Louis as our guide. He was very insightful about the history and Architectural influences that have shaped the French Quarter buildings. New Orleans has always been known as a European city and from this tour, that was put into perspective why. Its amazing how much history and culture is contained in a few blocks.
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Midwifedavid
Jun 21, 2024
Disappointing at the Start - I bet the tour would have been great! If we had been able to keep up with the guide. We’ve been in plenty of walking tours every time we are in NOLA. Usually they are nice strolls, not too fast, not too slow, just leisurely. Not this time! The guide and the other two guests were out the door talking and nearly across the street. We gave up knowing that this was not a pace we wanted to keep for our two hour tour. Very disappointing. High point we did get a refund.
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