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42-592: The Maple Leaf is on Oak Street in the Carrollton neighborhood. Opened on February 24, 1974, it is one of the longest continuing operations of New Orleans' music clubs with live performances seven nights a week. On the first night Andrew Hall's Society Jazz Band played and were there every Saturday for seven years. Many of the old time musicians were featured, including members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band . The Society Jazz Band left in

84-480: A series of industry-geared tax breaks. Oak Street also plays host to the annual Oak Street Po' Boy Festival and serves as the base for the Mid-Summer Mardi Gras parade every summer. This Louisiana road or road transport-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Uptown New Orleans Uptown is a section of New Orleans , Louisiana , United States, on

126-598: A spur from the main line along Nyades Street (now St. Charles Avenue ) down Jackson Avenue. Lafayette annexed Faubourg Delassize in 1844, bringing that city's boundary with New Orleans to Toledano Street. In 1852, New Orleans annexed Lafayette, moving the New Orleans city limit upriver to Toledano Street. The seat of Jefferson Parish moved to the City of Carrollton . However, the boundary between Jefferson Parish and Orleans Parish remained at Felicity Street until 1870, when it

168-527: Is a historic street located in the Carrollton neighborhood of Uptown New Orleans . The section of the street from Carrollton Avenue to Leake Avenue was thoroughly renovated as part of a government-funded revitalization project in 2009. The street had long housed some of the city's more renowned nightclubs, restaurants, shops and cafes, such as the Maple Leaf Bar , Jacque-Imo's Cafe, and Rue de la Course. The post- Hurricane Katrina renovations led to

210-476: Is being phased out, being replaced by College Prep. Sci High is located in the former Allen Elementary School campus. Lusher Charter School , a closed-admissions charter school, is in Uptown, in the former Alcee Fortier High School building. The Lycée Français de la Nouvelle Orléans , a public French immersion charter school, is also in Uptown. Sojourner Truth Academy , a charter school located in Uptown,

252-434: Is not the same location as the present day Jefferson, Louisiana . In 1870, New Orleans annexed Jefferson City, Hurstville, Bloomingdale, Burtheville, and Greenville. It also annexed the undeveloped area between Greenville and Burtheville that would later become Audubon Park . Faubourg Hurstville was the first faubourg of what is now Uptown New Orleans, created in 1833 by Cornelius Hurst, a wealthy businessman. It ran along

294-530: Is still used to identify the former faubourg; and as of 2010, still appears in local news items and real estate listings. The neighborhood streets are almost entirely residential. This faubourg was once farmland owned by Dominique François Burthe , who bought the property from Bernard de Marigny in 1831. Burthe subdivided the property in 1851 to create Burtheville. It was bounded by the river and Claiborne Avenue , between Webster and State streets. An 1867–1868 directory for New Orleans commented that Burtheville

336-542: Is the next major street inland, although it extends only up to Jefferson Avenue as a major thoroughfare. Next is well-known St. Charles Avenue , home to the St. Charles Avenue streetcar line . St. Charles was the city's "millionaires row" in the 19th century, and a good number of the architecturally significant old mansions remain. But much of the avenue holds newer apartment buildings and commercial establishments, and some mansions have been converted to rental units. Farther back,

378-643: The Broadmoor and Fontainebleau neighborhoods. Central Business District , historically also known as the "Old American Quarter," was the earliest area called "Uptown New Orleans," though many no longer include it in their definition of Uptown. Uptown New Orleans is under the jurisdiction of the city and parish of New Orleans. For details, see New Orleans government . The United States Postal Service operates an Uptown Station. Notable Uptowners have included jazz musicians Louis Armstrong , Buddy Bolden , George Brunies , Harry Connick Jr. , Percy Humphrey ,

420-700: The National Register of Historic Places . Historically, uptown was a direction, meaning movement in the direction against the flow of the Mississippi. After the Louisiana Purchase , many settlers from other parts of the United States developed their homes and businesses in the area upriver from the older Creole city. During the 19th century Canal Street was known as the dividing line between uptown and downtown New Orleans ,

462-524: The University of New Orleans . In recent history, the bar has weekly hosted residencies from acts such as Tank and the Bangas , The Revivalists , George Porter Jr. , Jon Cleary (musician) and Johnny Vidacovich . Porter still holds a weekly, Monday night residency at the bar with his trio, featuring Terrence Houston , and Michael "Goldenthroat" Lemmler. Poet Everette Maddox was so closely tied to

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504-622: The World Monuments Fund . The Fund helped in the creation of a preservation plan with assistance from American Express . In 2010, the Louisiana Landmarks Society rated Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 as one of the nine most endangered New Orleans landmarks. It said that two large oak trees threatened to destroy 30 tombs. The society also cited inadequate grounds keeping, improper maintenance, and damage by movie film crews as contributing to this decline. Greenville

546-540: The 19th and early 20th centuries, which continues to be the case with much of Uptown. Several small settlements grew up at steamboat landings a few miles upstream of New Orleans. The original Lafayette began as one of these. The sugar plantation once owned by François Livaudais, situated in Jefferson Parish along the Mississippi River between the present Philip, Pleasant, and LaSalle streets,

588-471: The Maple Leaf's first post-Katrina show in New Orleans. (Some other local musicians who were playing in the aftermath of the storm dispute the claim that it was the city's first post-Katrina public performance, but this was the first to generate such sizable crowds and media attention.) That night many of the journalists, cameramen, and crew from NBC News and other media outlets joined the party and recorded

630-550: The Mississippi River from Joseph Street to "the Bloomingdale Line" between Eleonore Street and State Street, continuing inland to Claiborne Avenue . The land had been part of a plantation once owned by Jean-Baptiste François LeBreton. Cornelius Hurst, Pierre Joseph Tricou, and Julie Robert Avart had bought the plantation in 1831, dividing it into three equal parts. Hurst commissioned a plantation house to be built on his land in 1832. The site of this house later became

672-771: The Neville Brothers , Joe "King" Oliver , Leon Roppolo , Gregg Stafford , singers the Boswell Sisters and Mahalia Jackson ; inventor A. Baldwin Wood ; writers Michael Lewis , Anne Rice , and John Kennedy Toole ; ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin ; past and present professional football players Archie Manning and his sons Peyton and Eli Manning , Steve Gleason , Drew Brees and Thomas Morstead ; New Orleans Saints former head coach Sean Payton and owner Tom Benson ; and rappers B.G. , Birdman (rapper) , Soulja Slim , Juvenile , and Lil Wayne . Like most of

714-453: The anthologies The Maple Leaf Rag (1980), The Maple Leaf Rag 15th Anniversary Anthology (1994), and Maple Leaf Rag III (2006). The Maple Leaf was closed for several weeks in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina . Owner Hank Staples remained in New Orleans to guard the bar and his other properties while vowing in interviews with to host the first concert in New Orleans after the storm. On September 30, 2005, Walter "Wolfman" Washington played

756-520: The areas closer to Claiborne Avenue, in some places severely. While 20th-century floods such as from the 1909 hurricane and the May 1995 Louisiana flood affected Uptown, the post-Katrina flooding was worse than anything seen since Sauvé's Crevasse in 1849. In these areas many old homes were built on piers 0.9 to 1.2 meters (3 to 4 feet) above street level to insure against the occasional disastrous flood. These piers proved to be insufficiently elevated, as

798-403: The boundary between the predominantly Francophone area downriver and the predominantly Anglophone area upriver. The very broadest definition of Uptown, historically, included everything upriver from Canal Street, which would encompass about one-third of the city. In the narrowest usage, as a New Orleans City Planning neighborhood, Uptown refers to an area of only some dozen blocks centering on

840-508: The corner of Tchoupitoulas and Joseph Streets. The house was moved in 1922 to a site at 3 Garden Lane. Tricou sold his part to Hurst in 1832. Hurst's property was surveyed for development into Faubourg Hurstville . Avart's portion became Faubourg Bloomingdale in 1841. Hurst named three streets perpendicular to the Mississippi River Eleonore, Arabella, and Joseph for his wife, daughter, and son, respectively. He named

882-534: The east bank of the Mississippi River , encompassing a number of neighborhoods (including the similarly-named and smaller Uptown area) between the French Quarter and the Jefferson Parish line. It remains an area of mixed residential and small commercial properties, with a wealth of 19th-century architecture. It includes part or all of Uptown New Orleans Historic District , which is listed on

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924-508: The emergence of a number of new businesses and venues. Its variety of eateries and boutiques, combined with its proximity to the South Carrollton Avenue streetcar line, have made this stretch of Oak Street a popular destination for locals and tourists alike. It has also become a common location for many of the film and television shoots that have led to the city of New Orleans being nicknamed "Hollywood South," following

966-464: The event. The band's equipment was powered by a diesel generator because electricity had not yet been restored to most of the city. The concert was shut down by police and National Guard because the city was under a curfew. Electricity was restored to this section of the city about a week later. 29°56′57″N 90°07′55″W  /  29.949080°N 90.131986°W  / 29.949080; -90.131986 Oak Street (New Orleans) Oak Street

1008-655: The federal Uptown New Orleans Historic District , listed on the National Register of Historic Places , are the River to S. Claiborne Avenue and Jackson Avenue to Broadway. Adjacent areas, which are often colloquially referred to as parts of Uptown are other federal historic districts: Carrollton , the Garden District , the Irish Channel , Central City , and the Lower Garden District . Uptown

1050-456: The flood water rose an additional 30 to 60 cm (one to two feet). However, the area on the river side of St. Charles Avenue, and some sections farther back, escaped flooding. This was the single largest area of New Orleans to be spared the levee -disaster flood. For months early in the post-Katrina recovery , Magazine Street became a commercial hub of New Orleans, with many businesses owned and run by locals reopening before chain stores in

1092-511: The fourth street Nashville, as part of his plan to get the New Orleans & Nashville Railroad to construct a spur into his faubourg. However, both Hurst and the railroad went bankrupt during the Panic of 1837 , and the proposed track was not built. Although Hurst himself is largely forgotten, his name lives on as Hurst Street, which crosses the four streets named above. The name Hurstville

1134-504: The intersection of Jefferson and St. Charles Avenues . Neither of these is what most New Orleanians of recent generations usually mean by uptown. While some may quibble about the exact boundaries, Uptown broadly refers to the areas of the city closer to the River (river side of South Claiborne Avenue ) and upriver from the Pontchartrain Expressway and the modern CBD/Warehouse District neighborhood. The boundaries of

1176-477: The main streets of, or boundary lines between, the various early 19th-century towns which were absorbed into the city. Near the upper end of Uptown, on and around the land used for the 1884 World Cotton Centennial , are Uptown landmarks Audubon Park , Tulane University , and Loyola University . Important neighborhoods and sections of Uptown include, going roughly upriver from Canal Street: Some definitions of Uptown also include areas back from Claiborne such as

1218-494: The metro area. New Orleans Public Schools operates district public schools, while Recovery School District oversees charter schools. Open-admission Uptown-area high schools include Walter L. Cohen High School , Eleanor McMain Secondary School , New Orleans Charter Science and Mathematics High School (Sci High), New Orleans College Prep , and Sophie B. Wright Institute of Academic Excellence . As of 2012 Cohen

1260-520: The oldest parts of the city developed before 1900 on the city's higher ground, the majority of Uptown had very little flooding from Katrina For this reason, the portion of New Orleans along the riverfront stretching from the Bywater to Carrollton and including about half of Uptown was sometimes called "the Sliver by the River " and "Isle of Denial." High water did affect some portions of Uptown, especially

1302-566: The river to Peters (now Jefferson), then inland to Pitt Street. The faubourg was created March 23, 1849, and named for Samuel Ricker, one of the land owners. According to the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, Uptown also refers to a specific neighborhood that is bounded by Napoleon Avenue, Magazine Street , Jefferson Avenue and La Salle Street. The neighborhood was once known as Faubourg Bouligny , until it became part of Jefferson City. The area

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1344-502: The river's crescent include Tchoupitoulas Street closest to the river. Formerly heavily devoted to river shipping commerce, as shipping became more containerized in the later 20th century more of Tchoupitoulas was devoted to residential and other commercial uses. The next major street back is Magazine. While Magazine Street has only one lane of traffic in both directions, it is a major commercial district, known for its many locally owned shops, restaurants, and art galleries. Prytania Street

1386-523: The same name in Lafayette Parish ), Carrollton , and other communities from the neighboring Parish. This newly-absorbed area became known as uptown New Orleans . People from other parts of the United States settled uptown in the 19th century, joined by immigrants, notably from Italy, Ireland, and Germany. Uptown has always had a sizable African American population. Census data shows that ethnically and racially mixed city blocks were common in

1428-676: The streets Simon Bolivar, LaSalle, and Freret form another parallel with the river. Farthest back is wide Claiborne Avenue , which until the early 20th century had a canal running down its neutral ground and was the back boundary of development until the drainage pumps designed by A. Baldwin Wood were installed (see: Drainage in New Orleans ). Major "spokes" perpendicular to the river include Melpomene/Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard; Jackson, Washington, Louisiana, Napoleon, Jefferson, and Nashville Avenues; and Broadway, Carrollton Avenue , and Leonidas Street. Many of these were formerly

1470-554: The summer of 1981 but have played there several times since then, including the 30th birthday party in 2004 and the 40th birthday party in 2014. Musical styles represented include blues , funk , R&B , rock , zydeco , jazz , jam bands . Frequent performers have included James Booker , Rebirth Brass Band , Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown , Henry Butler , Walter "Wolfman" Washington , Papa Grows Funk , and The Radiators . The bar has been an incubator for young bands formed by students at Tulane University , Loyola University , and

1512-722: The venue that his ashes are buried in the bar's patio area. The Maple Leaf hosts poetry readings and fashion shows. The Krewe of OAK starts and ends its parades at the Maple Leaf, where it holds its Krewe Ball. The Maple Leaf is thinly disguised in the Ellen Gilchrist short story "The Raintree Street Bar and Washerteria" (the bar used to contain a laundromat). Poems about it can be found in Mirror Wars and Shards by Nancy Harris , Body and Soul and Rhythm & Booze by Julie Kane ; The Everette Maddox Song Book , Bar Scotch , and American Waste by Everette Maddox; and in

1554-805: Was a city formerly in Jefferson Parish bounded by the present-day Audubon Park and Lowerline Street, and extended from the river to St. Charles Avenue. The city was annexed by New Orleans and became part of Orleans Parish. Although the name of Greenville is sometimes used in referring to a neighborhood in Uptown New Orleans, it should not be confused with the community of the same name in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana . By 1850, seven other faubourgs had been created: Plaisance, Delachaise, St. Joseph, East and West Bouligny, Avart, and Rickerville. These combined to form Jefferson City, which extended between Toledano and Joseph Streets. Note that this

1596-474: Was annexed by New Orleans in 1870. Uptown was built along the higher ground along an old natural river levee on a wide, gradual bend of the Mississippi. Streets were laid out either roughly following the River's curve or perpendicular to it, resulting in what has been called a "wheel with spokes" street pattern (with the hub inland from Uptown, in the Broadmoor and Mid-City areas). Major roadways echoing

1638-465: Was developed during the 19th century, mostly from land that had been plantations in the Colonial era. Several sections were developed as separate towns, like Lafayette, Jefferson City, Greenville, and Carrollton. For much of the 19th century most of what is now Uptown belonged to Jefferson Parish . New Orleans and Orleans Parish gradually annexed Lafayette (not to be confused with the present city of

1680-551: Was moved to Lowerline Street. Cornelius Hurst, developer of Faubourg Hurstville, sold a square block to the City of Lafayette for a cemetery in 1833. Now known as Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 , the land is bounded by Washington Avenue, 6th Street, Coliseum Street and Prytania Street. In 1972, this cemetery was added to the National Register of Historical Places, but in 1996 it was listed in the 1996 World Monuments Watch by

1722-527: Was sold to developers in 1832. The Livaudais Plantation was subdivided and incorporated in April 1833 as the City of Lafayette and included the land which would later become known as the Garden District . The center of town was around Jackson Avenue. Lafayette was also the site of the original Jefferson Parish courthouse. The New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad , also incorporated in 1833, constructed

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1764-514: Was very sparsely populated. The United States Marine Hospital was built at the corner of Henry Clay and Tchoupitoulas Streets in 1858, which was expanded in the 20th century to become the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital. In 1983, after the state of Louisiana acquired the property, this facility became the New Orleans Adolescent Hospital. Rickerville adjoined Hurstville along Joseph Street and extended along

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