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Founded in 1966, The Historic New Orleans Collection is a museum, research center, and publisher dedicated to the stewardship of the history and culture of New Orleans and the Gulf South. Learn more.
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The Historic New Orleans Collection on Google Arts & Culture Hundreds of artifacts from The Historic New Orleans Collection can be viewed online on Google Arts & Culture by people around the world due to a new partnership between the Google and THNOC.
Travel to the heart of the city and explore our complex of historic French Quarter buildings packed with the stories of the Crescent City and its surrounding region. With free admission, it’s one of the most accessible things to do in New Orleans.
The Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC) is a museum, research center, and publisher dedicated to the study and preservation of the history and culture of New Orleans and the Gulf South region of the United States. It is located in New Orleans' French Quarter.
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Founded in 1966 by General L. Kemper Williams and his wife Leila, the Historic New Orleans Collection (HNOC) has a mission of preserving the French Quarter and New Orleans history. Restored are seven architectural treasures in its Royal Street Complex and the Williams Research Center and on Chartres Street.
Dating back to 18th century, the entire block belonged to the French Crown and was the site of workmenâs barracks and the kingâs forges. Later, when the land was subdivided, a private dwelling was constructed on the Royal Street lot but destroyed by the great fire of 1788. In 1792, Jean François Merieult, a prosperous merchant and trader, purchase...
It originally built as a warehouse by Jean François Merieult in 1794â95. A 20th-century renovation revealed that material from a previous warehouse had been incorporated into Merieultâs building. Today small hideaways in the roomâs columns reveal small French bricks and ventilator grills dating from the early colonial warehouse, ask to see it!
Across the courtyard from the Counting House, the three-story Maisonette features wooden galleries and railings. This service wing, situated on Merieultâs original purchase, was constructed over an earlier structure that was built at the same time as the Merieult House in the 1790s. Archives, dated February 22, 1819, show a warehouse on this site. ...
Built in 1889, almost 100 years after the Merieult House, the residence is an Italianate, two-story brick house with galleries. The history of the property dates to Jean François Merieult, but it was Jean Baptiste Trapolin who built his house at the rear of the lot and purchased contiguous land fronting on Toulouse Street. The residence, surrounde...
This double cottage at 726-728 Toulouse Street is now a workspace of the exhibition preparation department. It was purchased by The Collection 1990. During the summer of 1991, an archaeological dig revealed evidence of all the structures that existed prior to the house now on the site:
The philanthropist Thomy Lafon bought the cottage in 1876 and willed it to the Society of the Holy Family.
- 520 Royal St, New Orleans, 70130, LA
- (504) 523-4662
Welcome to The Historic New Orleans Collection, a history museum dedicated to preserving the history and culture of New Orleans and the Gulf South. This site will help you navigate our three campuses and our current exhibitions, tours, and experiences.
The Historic New Orleans Collection is a museum, research center, and publisher with three locations in the French Quarter: * the original location at 533 Royal St. (featuring a a house museum and a self-guided exhibition chronicling the history of Louisiana) * the Williams Research Center at 410 Chartres St. (where materials relating to the ...
