Hotel Maison De Ville
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Hotel Maison de Ville and the Audubon Cottages is a hotel located in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, north of Jackson Square. It is a two-storied dwelling that was built by Jean Baptiste Lilie Sarpy in 1800.
[edit] History
Hotel Maison de Ville was constructed after the disastrous fire in 1788, which destroyed much of New Orleans.
The former carriage house, adjacent to the courtyard, is now a two-story suite. Four former slave quarters are located across the courtyard. They were built fifty years before the main building and are now guest cottages. These cottages, along with the Ursuline Convent, are believed to be the oldest buildings in New Orleans, though research has been hampered by the loss of historical documents.
They are now guest accommodations but during the past two hundred years, they were used as garconnieres, or bachelor quarters. The Creoles often built separate buildings for their grown sons to live in until they married.
Tennessee Williams was a frequent guest at the hotel as well and the room he most often stayed in now bears his name.
