French Quarter Sightseeing Featured Stories

By: FrenchQuarter.com Staff The New Orleans French Quarter after Hurricane Katrina looks pretty much the way it did before. Thank goodness. And residents and shopowners have been busy cleaning, polishing and sprucing up the old city for company coming. FrenchQuarter.com's been on the streets...

By: Tara McLellan Top 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 Reeves Top to bottom: The French Style Par Terre Garden of the Beauregard-Keyes House; An Ornamental Garden Wall of the Place d'Armes Hotel Ask 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 Benson Artists, architecture & entertainers near Jackson Square Before 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 Staff October 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...