Creole cottages and shotgun houses sit right on the sidewalk in bright paint, and Frenchmen Street runs three blocks of music clubs.
What Faubourg Marigny looks like
Faubourg Marigny is built almost entirely from Creole cottages and shotgun houses, one story under a steep roof, with four openings across the front. They sit right on the property line, with no yard between the porch and the sidewalk. and run straight out of the French Quarter, crossing without a break in the building line.
The cottages are wood and stucco, painted in reds, yellows and pinks that change from one house to the next along a single block. They date from 1805 to the 1850s, and the fronts keep their original proportions even where the paint is new. Iron fences no taller than a porch rail mark the property line where a picket fence does not.
is twice the width of the side streets, with a live oak median running down its center. A former Catholic church on Burgundy Street, its brick towers still topped with crosses, now runs as the . The old rectory and schoolhouse have been converted into rooms alongside it.
breaks the pattern for three blocks between Esplanade Avenue and Royal Street. The cottages there have been converted into music clubs, painted in the same bright colors, with hand lettered signs over the doors instead of house numbers. A band loads in through the same kind of door a resident would use next door.
The neighborhood ends at the river, where runs along a stretch of old wharves turned into a public walk. A ship passing on the Mississippi fills a wide shot from here, with the towers of the Central Business District visible upriver.
Shot in Faubourg Marigny
The HBO series Treme used Frenchmen Street as one of its own locations. Girls Trip sent its cast into Maison, on the same block. Deep Water shot a scene at Horn's Eatery, on Dauphine Street, before the restaurant closed. A procedural on another network kept a bar on Royal Street running under another name for seven seasons.
NCIS: New Orleans, 2014 to 2021
Played the Tru Tone Bar
The Tru Tone is the bar Special Agent Dwayne Pride owns in the show. The building is the R Bar at 1431 Royal Street, at the corner of Kerlerec. Only the exterior appears, since the interior scenes are filmed on a soundstage at Elmwood. The bar is still open under its own name.
Ybor City, the old cigar district in Tampa, was built with hundreds of one story casitas in the same shotgun plan as the Marigny's cottages. They sit close together on a tight grid laid out from the 1880s. Cigar factory buildings rise behind some of the cottage rows, a taller backdrop the Marigny's own streets do not have. Frame tight on the cottage rows to hold the match, since the factory buildings and the wider modern streets around them are not part of it. Try searching shotgun cottage rows Tampa now.
Bahama Village in Key West, Florida
Bahama Village, in Key West, is built from the same one story shotgun houses as the Marigny. They are painted in the same bright range of colors and packed close together on a tight colonial era street grid. The scale of the streets and the closeness of the porches to passing traffic match the Marigny's own blocks. Palm trees and Bahamian gingerbread trim are more common in Key West and would need trimming from a wide shot to hold the match. Try searching bright shotgun houses Key West now.
