Hermann-Grima and St. Louis #1
An historic home and cemetery exploration
The Hermann-Grima House
The Hermann-Grima House
Experience one of New Orleans’ most significant landmarks, the meticulously restored Hermann-Grima House. This magnificent Federal mansion with its courtyard garden boasts the only horse stable and functional 1830’s outdoor kitchen in the French Quarter.
Learn about the Creole mourning customs which the Hermann / Grima families observed then experience St. Louis #1, the city’s oldest surviving aboveground cemetery, site of the Grima family tomb as well as the final resting places of Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau; chess champion Paul Morphy; jazz great Isidore Barbarin; landmark plaintiffs Homer Plessy and Myra Clark Gaines; family of French Impressionist painter Edgar Degas; historic architect Benjamin Latrobe; legendary Creole Bernard de Marigny; first American Governor of Louisiana William Claiborne; first New Orleans African-American mayor Dutch Morial; and Nicolas Cage’s future tomb.
Grima Family Tomb, St. Louis Cemetery #1
Tomb of Marie Laveau the Voodoo Queen
Family Tomb of French Impressionist Master Edgar Degas
Jazz Funeral
Hermann-Grima and St. Louis #1 11 AM - 1 PM Mon. thru Sat.
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM Sundays at The Hermann-Grima House
820 St. Louis Street
