Faubourg Marigny was laid out in the first decade of the
19th century by eccentric Creole millionaire developer Bernard Xavier Philippe
de Marigny de Mandeville on land that had been his family plantation just down
river from the old city limits of New Orleans. In the early 19th century, New Marigny was
where white Creole gentlemen set up households for their mistresses of color
(and their offspring) in the tradition of "plaçage."
Wide Elysian Fields Avenue, named after the Champs-Élysées
in Paris, was designed to be the main street of the Faubourg Marigny. It was
the first street in New Orleans to extend all the way from the riverfront
straight to Lake Pontchartrain 8 km (5.0 mi) away.
The neighborhood declined badly in the mid 20th century, and
the area around Washington Square was nicknamed "Little Angola"
(after the prison of that name) for the dangerous criminals there. It came back
strongly in the late 20th century. Profiteering around the 1984 World's Fair
drove many long-term residents from the French Quarter into Marigny. Frenchmen
Street developed one of the city's premier collections of live music venues and
restaurants, and is a popular destination with music lovers from other parts of
the city and knowledgeable out-of-town visitors in the early 21st century.
Faubourg Marigny is one of the centers for homegrown New
Orleans Mardi Gras . The neighborhood is also home to the New Orleans Center
for Creative Arts Riverfront facility.
Faubourg Marigny is one of the most colorful neighborhoods
in New Orleans, the architecture borrows heavily from the colonial French and
Spanish and has elements of the Caribbean, this unique blending of
architectural elements over the last three centuries has resulted in an
architectural style unique to the city of New Orleans.
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