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Two-story red brick townhouse on a street corner, with gray shutters, a wrought iron balcony across the second floor, and a gated arched entrance at the sidewalk.Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Arched doorway behind an iron gate, with a paneled wood door, fanlight, and two bronze plaques mounted on the brick wall to the left. A small placard reads "Open for Tours".Photo: Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY-SA 3.0
Hanging wooden sign on an iron bracket against a brick wall, lettered "Hermann-Grima House Museum & Shop, Built 1831", with a smaller wooden sign below reading "Exchange Shop".Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0

Hermann-Grima House

Historic house, Historic house museumFrench Quarter, New Orleans
Open to the public10 AM to 4 PMSee hours
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Open to the public10 AM to 4 PM

The house is open to the public by guided tour only, and visitors must stay with their docent throughout. Cameras without flash or tripod are permitted; video and audio recording are not.

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Hermann-Grima House is an 1831 Federal-style townhouse museum at 820 St. Louis Street in the New Orleans French Quarter, shown by guided tour and known for its working open-hearth kitchen, urban slave quarters and courtyard 1, 2. The museum runs seasonal exhibitions, including an October program alongside a Creole death and mourning tour at its sister house 3. Visitors commonly describe footsteps and doors moving on the upper floors, the smell of smoke or flowers with no source, and a sense of being watched in the courtyard and the slave quarters.

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