Rampart Street - Landmarks

Landmarks

• Louis Armstrong Park -- the site of Congo Square and home of the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
• Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel (The Old Mortuary Chapel) -- Built in 1826, the oldest surviving church building in New Orleans.
• The Center of Jesus the Lord (Old Carmelite Convent) -- Built in 1895.
• St. Mark's United Methodist Church—Built in 1924.
• Eagle Saloon & Oddfellows Hall—19th century lodge building is perhaps the most important surviving building from the early days of jazz, having been the base for the famous "Eagle Band" and where Buddy Bolden, Freddie Keppard, Buddie Petit, Louis Armstrong, and many other early jazz greats played.
• Iroquois Theater, an African-American cinema and Vaudeville house managed by Clarence Williams in the early 20th century
• The State Palace Theater (formerly Lowe's State)
• WWL-TV Channel 4's television studios (former 7-UP bottler)
• The Saenger Theater
• The J & M Music Store and recording studio at the corner of Rampart and Dumaine, where Cosimo Matassa recorded such musical luminaries as Professor Longhair, Champion Jack Dupree, Big Joe Turner, Fats Domino, and many others. Longhair's anthem "Mardi Gras in New Orleans" and Dupree's version of "Frankie and Johnny" both mention the intersection explicitly.

Rampart Street has also been commemorated in such tunes and songs as "South Rampart Street Parade", "I've Got the Blues for Rampart Street" and "Saturday Night Fish Fry".