Filming in the Central Business District, New Orleans
Streetcars, historic bank towers and converted warehouses between Canal Street and the river.
What Central Business District looks like
Poydras Street runs six lanes wide toward the river, a wall of glass office towers rising on both sides. Canal Street crosses it near the river end, three lanes of traffic in each direction around a pair of streetcar rails on its own median.
The rises over Gravier and Carondelet Streets, a stone tower from 1921 topped by a white cupola lit for Christmas and Mardi Gras. , a glass tower on Poydras from 1972, still stands as the tallest building in Louisiana. Older bank buildings with stone and marble fronts sit at street level below the newer glass towers nearby.
Toward the river, upriver of Poydras, brick warehouses from the 19th century line the blocks. Many have been converted into hotels, restaurants and lofts. On Camp Street, a red brick warehouse with arched windows houses the . Farther down Camp Street, a 1906 Beaux Arts bank building is now the International House hotel.
Storefront signs and lit shop windows line Canal Street at ground level, with a streetcar passing every few minutes down the center median. On St. Charles Avenue, 's white marble columns face the street, a Greek Revival building where the mayor watches the Mardi Gras parades pass each year.
Shot in Central Business District
Green Book used the as a concert hall in Macon, Georgia. It used the Roosevelt Hotel as a hotel in Memphis. Runaway Jury, set in New Orleans itself, shot its law firm scenes at Gallier Hall.
Green Book, 2018
A concert scene at the Orpheum Theater
Played a concert hall, Macon, Georgia, 1962
Director Peter Farrelly said at a post screening Q&A held at the Orpheum itself that he filmed one of the film's concert scenes there. The story sets that scene in Macon, Georgia.
Green Book, 2018
Played a hotel, Memphis, Tennessee, 1962
The Roosevelt New Orleans is a hotel on Roosevelt Way, just off Canal Street. It was used for the film's scenes set in a Memphis hotel.
Runaway Jury, 2003
Gallier Hall
Gallier Hall is the Greek Revival former city hall on St. Charles Avenue. It played the office of the film's Hoffman law firm, in a story set in New Orleans itself rather than doubling for another city.
What Central Business District can double for
Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee
Green Book used The Roosevelt New Orleans on Roosevelt Way off Canal Street as a Memphis hotel in a scene set in 1962. Its Beaux Arts entrance and columned facade still carry the Hotel Grunewald name in stone above the canopy, unchanged since the film shot there. Frame the entrance from Baronne Street to keep the Central Business District's modern towers out of a period shot. Try searching hotel entrance columned facade now.
Macon in Macon, Georgia
Green Book shot one of its concert performance scenes inside the Orpheum Theater as a venue in Macon, Georgia. Director Peter Farrelly confirmed it at a post screening Q&A held in the same theater, and the 1918 Beaux Arts auditorium's ornate plasterwork still plays the period. Keep coverage to the interior, since the Orpheum's University Place exterior was not used for the Macon scene. Try searching ornate 1918 theater interior now.
