Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop, 1939

ID: 3227

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

Desire Streetcar route passed Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop, as indicated by streetcar tracks on Bourbon Street.

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…