New Orleans History -- Lake Pontchartrain
Saturday, November 09, 2024
238 Bourbon Street -- Absinthe Housecirca 1939, corner Beinville, Photo Source: http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=any&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=/LSM_FQA&CISOBOX1=fq000082 Built in 1806 by importers Pedro Font and Francisco Juncadella as a storehouse said to be a hanut of haunt of Pierre and Jean Lafitte. pirates 1860 census L. Frigerio age 30 -- 1912 record...he was a shipping agent operating here 1866 relatives Jacinto and P.O. Aleix opened a coffeehouse there 1874 coffeehouse bartender Cayetanno Ferrer took over and called it the "Absinthe Room" 1890 Ferrer's sons renamed it the "Old Absinthe House" famous for its Absinthe Frappe. 1905 absinthe outlawed in the United States Now Jean Lafitte's Bistro
NOTE--I THINK THIS IS THE ABSINTHE HOUSE RATHER THAN THE OLD ABSINTHE HOUSE
French Quarter People and Places
Bourbon Street 229 Bourbon Street --Louis and Leon Prima 238 Bourbon Street -- Absinthe House 619 Bourbon Street -- Fouche House Canal Street The Custom House Esplanade Avenue 400 Esplanade -- U.S. Mint Governor Nicholls Street 1210 Governor Nicholls St -- St. Augustine's Church Olreans Street 717 Orleans Avenue -- Bourbon Orleans Hotel Royal Street 132 Royal -- Reliable Shoe Repair The French Market Nuns at the French Market 1936 Toulouse Street 720 Toulous Street 732 Toulouse Street |
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