The Venue | Race & Religious

"The property is a relic of an older Louisiana, of which few glimmers remain. Originally within a row of three, the Greek-revival row-house at 510 Race St, were built in 1836. A row of Creole cottages followed in 1843, of which 1510 Religious Street remains. Constructed as tenements for middle class families, the history of the homes is undiluted and common to the city. Located in the 500 block of the riverfront, the houses were built with bricks of Mississippi River clay, baked along Tchoupitoulas Street, a former Indian trail. Diaries and letters from the period tell of a neighborhood of butchers and railroad families, drunken sailors and Creole orphans. Race Street then ended in a racetrack and Orange Street is the namesake of an orange grove, cultivated by Ursuline nuns."