Frenchmen Street is in the 7th Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana.
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, including Cafe Negril, Favela Chic, Vaso, Apple Barrel, Blue Nile, Snug Harbor, the Spotted Cat, and the Maison. In addition the street has numerous restaurants, bars, a premier bicycle shop, a record store, a book shop, and other local businesses.
Corner of Frenchmen Street & Decatur, in Faubourg Marigny
Frenchmen Street entertainment district
Ole Man River Band, Frenchmen Street
The 7th Ward is a legally defined voting ward and a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A sub-district of the Mid-City District Area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission are: A.P. Tureaud Avenue, Agriculture, Allen, Industry, St. Anthony, Duels, Frenchmen and Hope Streets to the north, Elysian Fields Avenue to the east, St. Claude and St. Bernard Avenues, North Rampart Street and Esplanade Avenue to the south, and North Broad Street to the west.
Claiborne Avenue at Frenchmen Street, 1938
House on the 7th Ward side of Esplanade Avenue
St. Peter Baptist Church
Ruined house in flood silt near the London Avenue Canal after the Hurricane Katrina levee failure disaster