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Now considered uptown, or the Garden District, the neighborhood that Lafayette No. 1 sits in was once all plantation. Notably, the defendant in the Plessy vs. Ferguson case, Judge Ferguson, was buried here. He upheld the state law that segregation,…

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

This placard recognizes the cemetery was part of the Livaudais Plantation, but does not acknowledge the slave graves within, despite mentioning "Here are buried many persons of German and Irish origin who lived in the city of Lafayette."

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

The site where Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 now stands was once the site of the Livaudais Plantation, which was divided into squares in 1832. Before the land became a city cemetery, these two graves marked the final resting places of slaves who worked on…

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

The St. Charles Hotel used to sit on this site at St. Charles Avenue and bounded by Gravier, Common, and Carondelet Streets. Today it is a Hilton Hotel which neither has any relation to the original hotel at this site, nor any marker indicating the…

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

While not original to the Whitney Plantation, this slave jail from 1868 is similar to those used to restrain slaves. Its location at the Whitney is purposeful--it was placed so that one could catch a glimpse of the main house through the jail.

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.