# Bywater

New Orleans, United States

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.

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Coordinates: 29.96277778, -90.04

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