Faubourg Marigny Home Tour 2026: 50th Anniversary

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Written By Ellis Anderson
 May 2026

The Faubourg Marigny Improvement Association celebrated its golden anniversary in style, offering invitations into seven homes, one amazing garden and a walk through the show-stopping Hotel Pompadour.

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Hotel Pompadour:

Read our story about this boutique hotel by artist James Michalopoulos

James Michalopoulos’ Hotel Pompadour served as tour headquarters. Several of the rooms were open for the tour Read our story about it!

Chartres Street

Dauphine Street

Port Street

Burgundy Street

Franklin Ave.

Rampart Street

Gold-certified native plant oasis

Marigny Street

Ellis Anderson

Ellis Anderson first came to the French Quarter in 1978 as a young musician and writer.  Eventually, she also became a silversmith and represented local artists as owner of Quarter Moon Gallery, with locations in the Quarter and Bay St. Louis, on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.  

Her book about the Bay's Katrina experience, Under Surge, Under Siege, was published by University Press of Mississippi and won several awards, including the Eudora Welty Book Prize in 2010 and the Mississippi Library Association's Nonfiction Author's Award for 2011.  Under Surge, Under Siege was also short-listed as nonfiction finalist for the 2012 William Saroyan International Book Prize, Stanford University Libraries.

 In 2011, Anderson founded her first digital publication, the Shoofly Magazine and served as publisher from 2011 - 2022.  She established French Quarter Journal in 2019, where she currently serves as publisher and managing editor.

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