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French Quarter Walking Tour With 1850 House Museum Admission

French Quarter Walking Tour With 1850 House Museum Admission

Overview

This French Quarter walking tour is conducted by city licensed guides and emphasize the history, architecture, and folklore of this fascinating city. Tour and store proceeds benefit Friends of the Cabildo, a non-profit volunteer group to provide support for the Louisiana State Museum. Purchasing a walking tour ticket also gets you admission to the 1850 House Museum, above the store, that shows what life was like in a typical Pontalba Apartment in the 1850s. Restroom is provided for walking tour guests as well.

City: New Orleans

Thu 03 Oct

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Starting at $25.00

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Thu 03 Oct

Starting at $25.00

Make a reservation

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What's Included

Local guide

Professional guide

Additional Info

Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Children must be accompanied by an adult
Face masks provided for travellers
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Social distancing enforced throughout experience
Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
Gear/equipment sanitised between use
Guides required to regularly wash hands
Contactless payments for gratuities and add-ons
We use the VOX Whisper System. Staff is responsible for cleaning each machine. The ear and mic buds are disposable. Units will only be used once per week to allow for rotating a clean unit to guests & guides. Guests can remove mask outside during the tour, inside state law requires a mask.

What To Expect

1850 House Museum and Store

Ticket includes admission to the museum

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Reviews (473)

JEG633

Mar 2016

The Friends of the Cabildo walking tour is a very good introduction to the architecture and history of the French Quarter. Our guide was friendly and knowledgable and two hours is just the right length. Bonus, you get free tickets to the Cabildo Museum with purchase of tour tickets.

Response from Host

Oct 2021

Thank you for the review!

David F

Feb 2016

Friends of The Cabildo (FOC) is volunteer organization in service to the Cabildo, a museum in the Louisiana State Museum system. Among their numerous programs is a French Quarter Tour Guide education program. This intensive 100+ hour course of classroom and field work is the most rigorous of all the city tour guide licensing programs. Students in the program master a wide body of well researched knowledge about the the history, culture, architecture and notable people of the French Quarter. Each student, in order to be licensed must pass a test but, more importantly, each must develop her/his own 2 hour walking tour and present it to a mentor. In return for the “education”, guides volunteer two walking tours per month for two years minimum. One of our guides has continued to volunteer for 20 years and another for 5 years. Some guides also work as paid guides for tour companies or lead private paid tours. Recently I took three FOC tours on three successive days. Each was led by a different guide and each was refreshingly different in route, content and emphasis. All of the guides talked about the early discoverers, the founders, the river and the transitions from France to Spain to France to America. Carol’s ‘down river’ tour emphasized architecture, the Ursuline nuns, termites and termite control (actually very interesting), pralines, po’boys. mufulettas and cajun and creole cooking. Ken’s ‘upriver’ tour added a little botany, the slave exchange, more on the upheavals caused by the transitions of ownership and the tense, even violent, friction between the Creoles (native born New Orleanians) and the Americans who deluged the city after 1815. Ann’s ‘all around tour’ added that most important missing element: the three part structure of New Orleans’ society: Whites, free men and women of color and enslaved people and their institutions. Each tour was entertaining and informative. Even when each guide covered the same information they did so in their own unique way with their own emphasis. The FOC tours start at The 1850 House on St. Anne St. opposite the St. Anne gate to Jackson Square. Tours are at 10:30 and 1:30 daily except Monday when there is only one tour. Usually there are two guides assigned for each tour time so that the groups do not get too large. If you take tours on successive days, ask if the guide is going upriver, downriver or all around so as not to miss anything.

Response from Host

Oct 2021

Thank you for the support and the review! Great review!

Linda C

Feb 2016

Our guide Karen was very knowledgeable and professional with a bit of humor during this 2 hour walking tour. She included the history and culture when discussing the architecture of the buildings and houses. Tour was very well planned and organized. I have been to the French quarter numerous times and taken several tours over the years, so I was somewhat familiar with the history and culture. This was the best tour I have taken and I learned a lot that I did not know. I was on the tour solo and the walking was at a moderate pace with frequent stops.

Response from Host

Oct 2021

Thank you for the support and the review!