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Magazine Street
General information
Location	New Orleans, LA
Coordinates	29° 55' 15.69 N 90° 5' 54.762 W
Distance	Six Miles

Magazine Street (New Orleans, LA)

Sidewalk sign located on Magazine Street

Magazine Street located in uptown New Orleans, Louisiana is one of the main streets that run through the Lower Garden District area. Its name was derived from an ammunition magazine, which was prominent during colonial times. The warehouse from which the street's name was derived was intended to be used as a house to store tobacco and other exports. Magazine Street is located in Planning District Two. It follows a distinct course along with the shape of the Mississippi River.

History

Blueprint of Magazine Street in the year of 1796.

Magazine Street's creation and beginning of establishment were created and devised by historical city surveyor Carlos Trudeau. Trudeau established what would be the very first five blocks of Magazine Street. These very first few blocks of Magazine Street were built on April 24, 1788, just a bit over a month after the Good Friday Fire. City surveyor Carlos Trudeau had drawn up a special plan to build the Gravier family a suburb. The suburb in which Trudeau had devised for the royal Gravier family would be named Suburbio de Santa Maria in Spanish and the Faubourg Ste. Marie in French. He would go on to position a street next to another street by the name of El Camino Real (known as Tchoupitoulas Street today) by the name of Almazen (warehouse) Street which would, later on, become Magazine Street. Magazine Street would be the second street from the Mississippi River. In the early 1800s, A man by the name of Armand Duplantier who hailed from the Lafon Faubourg's (suburbs), decided to pick back up from where Trudeau had begun. Duplantier had a different vision for Magazine Street. Duplantier dismissed all of Trudeau's downtown imagery and plans for Magazine Street and established an uptown-like trajectory through what citizens of the city of New Orleans today call the Lower Garden District. Between the years of 1810 and 1850, Magazine Street and all other streets that ran parallel to the Mississippi River were further extended. Duplantier had established the street of Magazine and its relevance within the innovation and living in the city of New Orleans.

Description & Attractions

Reginelli's Pizzeria located on 5961 Magazine St, New Orleans

Peaches Records Store; Veteran record store boasting a large selection of vinyls & CDs plus locally-themed books & apparel.

Today, Magazine Street stretches approximately six miles parallel to the Mississippi River from Canal Street to Audubon Park. The street itself travels from the Central Business District of the city of New Orleans and the Warehouse Arts District through the Garden District and uptown New Orleans. Magazine Street is clustered with residential homes and renovated warehouses. It is highly known for its trait of commerce among the uptown area of the city of New Orleans along with its countless number of restaurants. Some of the biggest dining spots amongst Magazine Street include The Rum House, Reginelli's Pizzeria, Dat Dog, and other numerous dining spots that look to satisfy the appetite of tourists and native citizens of the city of New Orleans. Along with its reputation for some of the most reputable dining spots, Magazine offers a chain of commercial businesses and shopping areas for tourists and citizens as well. These shopping areas and commercial businesses consist of Century Girl Vintage, Magazine Antique Mall, Miete, and other shopping areas as well. Magazine Street offers more than just shopping and eating. It offers the opportunity for tourists and citizens within the city of New Orleans to pamper themselves at spas or salons, workout, make groceries, and even engage in leisure activities such as painting. With Magazine Street stretching as long as six miles, it is ideal and recommended to invest in forms of transport when traveling along the street. There is a Magazine Street bus that departs from Canal Street. Also, the streetcar service that runs on St. Charles Avenue can be taken, allowing citizens or tourists the ability to walk several blocks from the streetcar stop to the river to Magazine Street.