Elysian Fields Avenue
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Elysian Fields Avenue is a broad, straight avenue in New Orleans named after the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris. It courses south to north from the Lower Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain, a
Elysian Fields Avenue New Orleans
Southern Decadence parade on Elysian Fields
Faubourg Marigny
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The Faubourg Marigny is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
Elysian Fields Avenue
…Orleans and the Esplanade Avenue Wharf. The location of Elysian Fields Avenue originated in the early 19th century placement of a sawmill canal on the Marigny Plantation, which at that time was just outside New Orleans proper (the present French Quarter). In 1831 the Pontchartrain Railroad was built from that location…
Residential architecture in Faubourg Marigny
Marker commemorating the 1805 founding of the faubourg
The Marigny Opera House, a performing arts center adapted from a former Catholic church, in Faubourg Marigny.
1979 photograph of 2519 Dauphine Street