BK Historic House and Gardens

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"New Orleans’ famed French Quarter is abundant with gorgeous 19th-century architecture, but this Greek Revival townhouse-turned-museum is one of the few that you can explore. The house is named after two of its most prominent owners—the Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard and the author Frances Parkinson Keyes (the author of Joy Street and The Explorer, and who sponsored the purchase and restoration of the property). Beyond the Palladian façade with its raised center hall are rooms that have been preserved to show off the lifestyles of both the wealthy Beauregard family, and there is also a chance to see Keyes’ study. There are also historic Creole cottage features, providing a glimpse into the affluent, pre-Civil War life of the property’s inhabitants, as well as the people that they enslaved, and who would have labored there at the time. It’s a great, potted 200-year history of the Crescent City in one place." - Paul Oswell