Irish Channel, New Orleans
Irish Channel is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans.
Irish Channel is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. It abuts the Garden District Area on the north side. Although the original site was located predominantly on the east side of Jackson Avenue, its boundaries as defined by the Historic District Landmarks Commission are: Magazine Street to the north, Jackson Avenue to the east, the Mississippi River to the south and Louisiana Avenue to the west.
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Worth seeing in and around Irish Channel, New Orleans
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Caesars Superdome
Caesars Superdome commonly known as the Superdome, is an indoor stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. It has served as the home venue of the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League since its opening in 1975. Plans to build the Superdome were drawn up in 1967 by the New Orleans modernist architectural firm of Curtis and Davis and the building opened as the Louisiana Superdome in 1975.
3.1 km · domed stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA · Wikipedia - 02Smoothie King Center
Smoothie King Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is located in the Central Business District, adjacent to the Caesars Superdome.
2.9 km · multi-purpose indoor arena in New Orleans, Louisiana · Wikipedia - 03Loyola University New Orleans
Loyola University New Orleans is a private Jesuit university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Originally established as Loyola College in 1904, the institution was chartered as a university in 1912.
4 km · private Jesuit university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States · Wikipedia - 04Hancock Whitney Center
Hancock Whitney Center, formerly One Shell Square, is a 51-story, 697-foot skyscraper designed in the International style by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, located at 701 Poydras Street in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the tallest building in both the city of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana, and is taller than Louisiana's tallest peak, Driskill Mountain.
3.2 km · skyscraper in New Orleans, Louisiana · Wikipedia - 05National World War II Museum
The National WWII Museum is a military history museum in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, on Andrew Higgins Drive between Camp Street and Magazine Street. The museum focuses on the contribution made by the United States to Allied victory in World War II. It was founded in 2000 as the National D-Day Museum and was later designated by the U.S. Congress as America's official National WWII Museum in 2003.
2.5 km · military history museum and non-profit organization in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States · Wikipedia - 06Napoleon House
The Napoleon House, also known as the Mayor Girod House or Nicolas Girod House, is a historic building at 500 Chartres Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Built in 1794 and enlarged in 1814, its name derives from the local legend that it was intended as a residence for Napoleon Bonaparte after his exile.
4 km · house · Wikipedia - 07Benson Tower
Benson Tower, located at 1450 Poydras Street in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, is a 26-story, 406 feet -tall skyscraper. The building was purchased by late New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson on September 15, 2009 and renamed the Benson Tower.
3.2 km · skyscraper in New Orleans, LA · Wikipedia - 08Hibernia Bank Building
Hibernia Bank Building, at 812 Gravier Street at the corner of Carondelet Street in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, is a 23-story, 355 feet -tall skyscraper. It was once the headquarters of Hibernia National Bank.
3.3 km · Historic skyscraper in downtown New Orleans · Wikipedia - 09Piazza d'Italia
The Piazza d'Italia is an urban public plaza located behind the American Italian Cultural Center at Lafayette and Commerce Streets in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana. It is controlled by the New Orleans Building Corporation, a public benefit corporation wholly owned by the City of New Orleans.
3.1 km · urban public plaza in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana · Wikipedia - 10Aquarium of the Americas
Audubon Aquarium is an aquarium in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. After a $41 million renovation that would see the Audubon Insectarium merge with the facility, the aquarium reopened with new exhibits and experiences on June 8, 2023.
3.5 km · zoo aquarium in New Orleans, USA · Wikipedia
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Getting to Irish Channel, New Orleans
- Airports
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans (MSY), 19 km · Pensacola (PNS), 285 km
- Pensacola → Irish Channel, New Orleans281 km · quickest by road, 4h 46m · $26–36
- Houston → Irish Channel, New Orleans510 km · quickest by air, 5h 2m · $200–290
- Birmingham → Irish Channel, New Orleans7299 km · quickest by air, 16h 30m · £940–1,450
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Irish Channel, New Orleans. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextThe ferry at the foot of Canal Street (free for pedestrians, $1 for cars) will take you across the Mississippi to the Algiers neighborhood, and give you a scenic budget mini-cruise of the River in the process.
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Next door to Irish Channel, New Orleans
Irish Channel, New Orleans is 4 km from New Orleans, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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