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Roots Earth in New Orleans: audio stories about 45 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 45 places in New Orleans, United States, in North America. The New Orleans stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open New Orleans, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people.

The 45 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026.

Published 16 September 2026. Markdown: new-orleans.md

The 45 places in New Orleans with audio stories

In the order the app shows them.

  1. St. Louis Cathedral
  2. Jackson Square
  3. French Quarter
  4. Bourbon Street
  5. The Cabildo
  6. The Presbytere
  7. St. Charles Avenue Streetcar
  8. The National WWII Museum
  9. Caesars Superdome
  10. Pontalba Buildings
  11. Royal Street
  12. Canal Street
  13. French Market
  14. Preservation Hall
  15. Old Ursuline Convent
  16. New Orleans Museum of Art
  17. Ogden Museum of Southern Art
  18. The Historic New Orleans Collection
  19. New Orleans Jazz Museum
  20. Audubon Aquarium
  21. Mardi Gras World
  22. Woldenberg Park
  23. Jackson Brewery
  24. Congo Square
  25. Louis Armstrong Park
  26. Beauregard-Keyes House
  27. Gallier House
  28. Hermann-Grima House
  29. 1850 House
  30. Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre
  31. Garden District
  32. Lafayette Cemetery No. 1
  33. Saint Louis Cemetery
  34. Faubourg Marigny
  35. Frenchmen Street
  36. Treme
  37. Bywater
  38. Magazine Street
  39. Commander's Palace
  40. Cafe du Monde
  41. St. Roch Market
  42. Bayou St. John
  43. City Park
  44. Audubon Park
  45. St. Augustine Church

Is there an audio guide for St. Louis Cathedral?

Yes. St. Louis Cathedral has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian.

It is place 1 of the 45 New Orleans places in the app, at 29.95777778, -90.06361111. Every one of the other 44 places in the list above has the same two stories.

Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself.

How to use Roots Earth in New Orleans

Open Roots Earth and choose New Orleans. The city has its own map of places with all 45 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order.

You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.

In full

All 45 places in New Orleans, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 45 places in New Orleans, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print.

1. St. Louis Cathedral

Coordinates
29.95777778, -90.06361111
In one line
Triple-spired and gleaming white above Jackson Square, this is the oldest cathedral in continuous use in the United States. The present church rose in 1850, seat of the Archdiocese of New Orleans and a symbol of the French Quarter.

2. Jackson Square

Coordinates
29.9575, -90.06305556
In one line
Laid out in 1721 as the Place d'Armes, this landscaped square is the historic heart of New Orleans. An equestrian Andrew Jackson statue stands at its center, framed by the cathedral, the Cabildo, and the Pontalba Buildings. A National Historic Landmark.

3. French Quarter

Coordinates
29.95861111, -90.065
In one line
Founded in 1718, the French Quarter is the oldest neighborhood in New Orleans. Its grid of narrow streets, pastel stucco walls, and lacy cast-iron balconies reflects French foundations rebuilt in the Spanish colonial era. A National Historic Landmark district.

4. Bourbon Street

Coordinates
29.95805, -90.06469
In one line
Named in 1721 for the French House of Bourbon, this twelve-block French Quarter street is famous worldwide for its bars, balconies, and nonstop music. Once residential, it became the city's entertainment heart after jazz musicians arrived in the early twentieth century.

5. The Cabildo

Coordinates
29.95805, -90.06333
In one line
Built between 1795 and 1799 as the Spanish colonial seat of government, the Cabildo hosted the Louisiana Purchase transfer ceremonies in 1803. Designed by Gilberto Guillemard, it flanks St. Louis Cathedral and now anchors the Louisiana State Museum.

6. The Presbytere

Coordinates
29.95803056, -90.06376944
In one line
Begun in 1791 and finished in 1813, this Spanish colonial building was designed to house clergy but never served that purpose. The mirror image of the Cabildo, it frames St. Louis Cathedral and now holds Louisiana State Museum exhibits on Mardi Gras and Hurricane Katrina.

7. St. Charles Avenue Streetcar

Coordinates
29.9291, -90.1007
In one line
Running since 1835, the St. Charles Avenue line is among the world's oldest continuously operating streetcars. Olive-green cars rumble for roughly seven miles beneath arching live oaks, past Uptown mansions. A National Historic Landmark on rails.

8. The National WWII Museum

Coordinates
29.94305556, -90.07027778
In one line
The National WWII Museum opened on June 6, 2000, as the National D-Day Museum and is now America's official museum of the Second World War. Its Warehouse District campus tells the war through immersive galleries, restored aircraft, and personal stories.

9. Caesars Superdome

Coordinates
29.95083333, -90.08111111
In one line
The Caesars Superdome opened in 1975 as the world's largest fixed domed structure. Home of the New Orleans Saints, it has hosted eight Super Bowls and famously sheltered thousands during Hurricane Katrina before its 2006 reopening symbolized the city's recovery.

10. Pontalba Buildings

Coordinates
29.95743056, -90.06278056
In one line
The Pontalba Buildings, built between 1849 and 1851 for Baroness Micaela Almonester de Pontalba, frame two sides of Jackson Square. Their red-brick rows and ornamental cast-iron galleries rank among the oldest apartment-style buildings in the United States.

11. Royal Street

Coordinates
29.9596, -90.0633
In one line
Royal Street, one of the original streets of the French Quarter dating from the early eighteenth century, is known for its antique shops, art galleries, and elegant iron balconies.

12. Canal Street

Coordinates
29.95417, -90.07306
In one line
Canal Street, planned in the early nineteenth century around a canal never built, became New Orleans' grand commercial boulevard and the divide between the French Quarter and the American Sector. Its 171-foot width earned it fame as America's widest main street.

13. French Market

Coordinates
29.959, -90.0603
In one line
The French Market, established as a trading place in 1791 on a site used by Native Americans before colonization, is considered the oldest public market in the United States. It stretches six riverfront blocks of the French Quarter from Cafe du Monde to its flea-market stalls.

14. Preservation Hall

Coordinates
29.9583, -90.0654
In one line
Preservation Hall, founded in 1961 by Allan and Sandra Jaffe on Saint Peter Street, exists to protect traditional New Orleans jazz. Its bare, intimate room, without amplification or alcohol, hosts nightly concerts and is home to the touring Preservation Hall Jazz Band.

15. Old Ursuline Convent

Coordinates
29.95972, -90.06028
In one line
Completed in 1752 for the Ursuline nuns who arrived in 1727, this French colonial landmark is widely called the oldest surviving building in the Mississippi Valley and a rare survivor of the city's earliest decades.

16. New Orleans Museum of Art

Coordinates
29.98648, -90.09343889
In one line
Opened in 1911 as the gift of sugar broker Isaac Delgado, the city's oldest fine-arts museum holds more than 40,000 works in a Beaux-Arts building in City Park, ringed by a celebrated sculpture garden.

17. Ogden Museum of Southern Art

Coordinates
29.9437, -90.0714
In one line
Founded on Roger Ogden's gift of southern art and opened at its Warehouse District home in 2003, this Smithsonian affiliate pairs a glass-and-stone hall with a Richardsonian Romanesque library to celebrate the art of the American South.

18. The Historic New Orleans Collection

Coordinates
29.95722, -90.06556
In one line
Founded in 1966 by General Kemper Williams and his wife Leila, this Royal Street museum and research center preserves manuscripts, art, and artifacts of Louisiana and the Gulf South within a cluster of restored colonial and nineteenth-century buildings.

19. New Orleans Jazz Museum

Coordinates
29.9612, -90.0578
In one line
Housed in the Greek Revival Old United States Mint at the edge of the French Quarter, this museum holds the world's largest collection of jazz instruments, including the first cornet of Louis Armstrong.

20. Audubon Aquarium

Coordinates
29.95027778, -90.06305556
In one line
Opened in 1990 on the Mississippi riverfront at the foot of Canal Street, this Audubon Nature Institute aquarium holds more than 3,600 animals, a walk-through Caribbean reef tunnel, and a rare white alligator.

21. Mardi Gras World

Coordinates
29.9351, -90.0615
In one line
A working riverfront warehouse home to the Kern family operation, whose float-making history began in 1932 and whose public attraction opened in 1984 to reveal the giant sculptures and parade artistry behind New Orleans Carnival.

22. Woldenberg Park

Coordinates
29.9533, -90.063
In one line
A riverfront green space along the Mississippi at the edge of the French Quarter, opened in 1989 on former wharf land. Named for philanthropist Malcolm Woldenberg, it holds public sculptures and open lawns with sweeping river views.

23. Jackson Brewery

Coordinates
29.9561, -90.0633
In one line
A landmark brick building beside Jackson Square, founded in 1890 by Lawrence Fabacher and once home to popular Jax beer. After brewing ended in 1974, it was reborn as a riverfront marketplace of shops, restaurants, and apartments.

24. Congo Square

Coordinates
29.96083333, -90.06833333
In one line
A historic open square in Tremé where enslaved Africans gathered on Sundays to drum, dance, and trade. Its rhythms helped shape American music and jazz. Now within Louis Armstrong Park, it remains a place of memory and weekly drumming.

25. Louis Armstrong Park

Coordinates
29.96277778, -90.06777778
In one line
A 32-acre park in Tremé, dedicated in 1980 and named for jazz legend Louis Armstrong. It surrounds historic Congo Square and holds theaters, lagoons, and statues of New Orleans musicians, just across Rampart Street from the French Quarter.

26. Beauregard-Keyes House

Coordinates
29.96083333, -90.06111111
In one line
An 1826 raised center-hall mansion on Chartres Street, blending Greek Revival and Creole forms. It takes its name from Confederate general P. G. T. Beauregard and author Frances Parkinson Keyes, who restored it. Today it is a house museum with a walled garden.

27. Gallier House

Coordinates
29.96132222, -90.06139167
In one line
A Royal Street townhouse that architect James Gallier Junior built for his own family around 1860. Blending Greek Revival and Italianate styles, it featured rare comforts like indoor plumbing and running water. Now a furnished house museum and National Historic Landmark.

28. Hermann-Grima House

Coordinates
29.957125, -90.06773056
In one line
An 1831 Federal-style mansion on Saint Louis Street, built for merchant Samuel Hermann by architect William Brand. It keeps the only 1830s open-hearth kitchen and horse stable in the French Quarter. Today a house museum and National Historic Landmark.

29. 1850 House

Coordinates
29.959584, -90.062999
In one line
Set inside the Lower Pontalba Building on Jackson Square, this restored row house recreates middle-class New Orleans life around 1850, furnished with period antiques across parlor, dining room, bedrooms, and servant quarters.

30. Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre

Coordinates
29.9575, -90.0642
In one line
Founded in 1916, this French Quarter playhouse ranks among the oldest community theatres in the United States. Its Spanish Colonial building at Saint Peter and Chartres Streets stages plays and musicals year-round in a courtyard setting.

31. Garden District

Coordinates
29.92777778, -90.08472222
In one line
Developed between 1832 and 1900 by wealthy Americans on the old Livaudais Plantation, this leafy quarter of mansions, oaks, and ironwork remains one of the best-preserved collections of nineteenth-century Southern residential architecture in the country.

32. Lafayette Cemetery No. 1

Coordinates
29.928701, -90.085361
In one line
Founded in 1833 in the heart of the Garden District, this walled block holds roughly 1,100 above-ground family tombs and some 7,000 burials, its cruciform paths lined with weathered marble and crumbling brick vaults.

33. Saint Louis Cemetery

Coordinates
29.95944, -90.06889
In one line
Opened in 1789, Saint Louis Cemetery Number One is the oldest of the city's three Saint Louis burial grounds, a maze of above-ground tombs holding figures such as voodoo priestess Marie Laveau and civil rights plaintiff Homer Plessy.

34. Faubourg Marigny

Coordinates
29.96472222, -90.05527778
In one line
Laid out from 1806 by Creole developer Bernard de Marigny on his family plantation downriver of the French Quarter, this neighborhood of Creole cottages and shotgun houses became a bohemian, music-loving enclave centered on Frenchmen Street.

35. Frenchmen Street

Coordinates
29.96333, -90.05722
In one line
Running through Faubourg Marigny just downriver of the Quarter, this short strip of jazz clubs and bars rose in the 1980s as the locals' answer to Bourbon Street, packed nightly with live music in venues like Snug Harbor and the Spotted Cat.

36. Treme

Coordinates
29.96833333, -90.07388889
In one line
Home to Congo Square, Saint Augustine Church, and brass-band traditions, it remains a wellspring of Creole and jazz culture.

37. Bywater

Coordinates
29.96277778, -90.04
In one line
Bywater is a riverside neighborhood downriver from the French Quarter, named in the 1940s for its telephone exchange. Once plantation land, it became an artists' haven of colorful shotgun houses and Creole cottages along the bohemian Saint Claude corridor.

38. Magazine Street

Coordinates
29.92806, -90.08278
In one line
Magazine Street runs 6 miles along the Mississippi's curve, from Canal Street to Carrollton. Named for old colonial warehouses, this Uptown corridor is lined with 19th-century houses, antique shops, boutiques, galleries, and restaurants.

39. Commander's Palace

Coordinates
29.92878, -90.08422
In one line
Commander's Palace is a celebrated Garden District restaurant founded by Emile Commander in 1893. Housed in a turquoise Victorian building and run by the Brennan family since 1969, it has earned multiple James Beard Awards for its Creole cuisine.

40. Cafe du Monde

Coordinates
29.957515, -90.061823
In one line
Cafe du Monde is a beloved open-air coffee stand in the French Market, founded in 1862. Open around the clock, it has served chicory coffee and sugar-dusted beignets nearly unchanged for over 160 years, a New Orleans ritual.

41. St. Roch Market

Coordinates
29.96941, -90.05219
In one line
Saint Roch Market is a historic public market built in 1875 in the Saint Roch neighborhood. Once a seafood and produce hall, it sat vacant after Hurricane Katrina and reopened in 2015 as a modern food hall with many vendors.

42. Bayou St. John

Coordinates
30.0272, -90.0827
In one line
Bayou Saint John is a historic waterway linking inner New Orleans to Lake Pontchartrain. Today its grassy banks are a beloved local park.

43. City Park

Coordinates
30.00166667, -90.09277778
In one line
City Park spreads across roughly 1,300 acres of old live oaks, lagoons, and gardens, making it one of America's largest urban parks. Established in 1854 on former plantation land, it holds the world's largest stand of mature oaks.

44. Audubon Park

Coordinates
29.93416667, -90.12361111
In one line
Audubon Park stretches 350 acres between Saint Charles Avenue and the Mississippi River in Uptown New Orleans. Created in 1871 on former sugar plantations and shaped by the Olmsted firm, it holds ancient oaks, a lagoon, and the Audubon Zoo.

45. St. Augustine Church

Coordinates
29.9652, -90.0662
In one line
Saint Augustine Church, dedicated in 1842 in the Treme neighborhood, is the oldest Black Catholic parish in the United States.

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