"Old 'Absinthe House' To Go" (1 of 3)
This file appears in: Old Absinthe House and the Battle of New Orleans
1912 passage of a federal law that prohibited the trade of absinthe is depicted as the "death knell" of the New Orleans institution.
This file appears in: Old Absinthe House and the Battle of New Orleans
Old Absinthe House and the Battle of New Orleans
The Old Absinthe House, a stucco building at the corner of Bourbon and Bienville Streets, is one of the oldest structures in New Orleans, dating to approximately 1806.
In the nineteenth century,…