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13. Looking down St. Roch Avenue

14. Dan’s Bar at the intersection of St. Roch Avenue and North Rampart Street.

15. St. Roch Avenue

16. Dauphin Street

17. Fire Station No. 24 on Dauphin Street has been adaptive reused as a vacation home.

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19. A look inside the Marigny Opera House during a Next City Vanguard Alumni event. The Marigny Opera House is an 1853 church that has been converted into a performance venue for local artists, including dance & music.

20. The intersection of Royal and Press streets is where the arrest of Homer Adolph Plessy took place in 1892.

21. Studio Be is a 35,000 square foot warehouse where visual art depicts the stories of revolutionaries, heroes and everyday New Orleanians.

22. An event inside Studio Be.

Article and photographs by Ennis Davis, AICP. Contact Ennis at edavis@moderncities.com