Frenchmen Street

It is best known for the three-block section in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood which since the 1980s has developed as the center of many popular live-music venues,[1] including Cafe Negril, Favela Chic, Vaso, Apple Barrel, Blue Nile, Snug Harbor, the Spotted Cat, and the Maison.

The oldest and best-known section of Frenchmen Street is in the Faubourg Marigny, now a neighborhood of New Orleans just downriver from the Vieux Carré or French Quarter.

This area was once the plantation of Bernard de Marigny, a wealthy Creole, that is, an ethnic French man born in New Orleans, and political leader.

Frenchmen Street "was named after six French men who were executed after leading an uprising" after France ceded Louisiana to Spain following its defeat by Great Britain in the Seven Years' War.

[citation needed] After the Saints' Super Bowl win in 2010, the street received national news media coverage for hosting one of the largest celebrations in the city's history.

In Malcolm Heard's French Quarter Manual (1997), he quotes nineteenth century architect Benjamin H. Latrobe (1764-1820) describing the cottages: “These one-storied houses are very simple in their plan.