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Two-story stucco building on a street corner with four Coca-Cola umbrellas over a second-floor balcony, two arched doorways open at street level, and a hanging sign reading Old Absinthe House Since 1807.Photo: Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY-SA 3.0
Dim interior of a bar with a wooden counter and stools, bottles stacked behind it, football helmets and pennants hung from the ceiling beams, and walls covered with business cards.Photo: Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY-SA 3.0
Marble absinthe fountain on a bar counter, topped by a small bronze figure of a woman, with a brass spigot, a worn marble base, liquor bottles and an espresso machine behind it.Photo: Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY-SA 3.0
Silver-colored absinthe fountain with a faceted glass reservoir and four spigots, standing on a bar top in front of shelves of liquor bottles.Photo: Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY-SA 3.0

Old Absinthe House

1 published account
Restaurant and bar, Historic siteFrench Quarter, New Orleans
Open to the publicSee hours
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Open to the public

Old Absinthe House is a working bar open to the public during posted hours. Staff can refuse service and ask patrons to leave, and the upper floors are private unless opened for an event.

What people recorded here

1 published account, credited to its source

Old Absinthe House is a bar at the corner of Bourbon and Bienville streets in the French Quarter, in a building dating to 1806, known for the Absinthe House Frappe mixed there by Cayetano Ferrer in 1874 and for the marble fountains that once dripped water over sugar cubes at the rail 1, 2. New Orleans & Company reports that the saloon is said to be haunted by the voodoo priestess Marie Laveau, the privateer Jean Lafitte and Andrew Jackson, who by local legend met in an upstairs room before the Battle of New Orleans 1, 3. Visitors commonly describe figures seen briefly at the bar and in the upstairs rooms, glasses and barware moving or turning up out of place, and a sense of being watched after dark.

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New Orleans & Company1 account · Sep 9, 2025

New Orleans & Company's roundup of haunted bars and restaurants states that the ghosts of voodoo priestess Marie Laveau, Jean Lafitte and Andrew Jackson are said to haunt the saloon.

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Saloon and bar room