Governor William C. C. Claiborne

ID: 3215

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

Oil on canvas, by Andres Molinary, 1912

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 Blacksmith Shop was built between 1772 and 1791…