Nouvelle Orleans depicted as it may have appeared in 1802
This file appears in: Old Absinthe House and the Battle of New Orleans
Created by Mrs. Alice Standish Buell. The Absinthe House is visible between Bourbon and Royal Street, in the top left corner of the French Quarter.
Courtesy of the Louisiana State Museum
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,…