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New Orleans Architecture Tours

French Quarter

A good architecture tour is one of the best daytime uses of New Orleans, because the city reveals itself through materials before it reveals itself through mythology. New Orleans Architecture Tours keeps the focus on buildings, streets, and the historical forces that made them.

This is especially useful early in a trip, before every balcony begins to blur into every other balcony. A guide who can distinguish Creole townhouse from American townhouse will improve the rest of your walking.

Book a route that matches where you are staying, then let the details slow you down. New Orleans rewards people who learn how to look.

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