Buccaneer, by Newell Convers Wyeth, c. 1940.

ID: 3214

This file appears in: Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop and the Battle of New Orleans

Crayon on paper

Courtesy of the Collections of the Louisiana State Museum

This file appears in: Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop and the Battle of New Orleans

Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop and the Battle of New Orleans

By Mary Ann Wegmann, Louisiana State Museum & University of New Orleans History Department

For many years, a bar called “Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop” has occupied this building at the corner of Bourbon Street and St. Philip Street. Designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1970, Lafitte’s…