New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
File:Perseverance-Hall-No-4.jpg
Perseverance Hall No. 4
Location	New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Coordinates
Area	4 acres (0.016 km2)
Visitation	130,393 (2011)
NRHP Reference #	01000277
Added to NRHP	October 2, 1973

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park is a U.S. National Historical Park in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, near the French Quarter. It was created in 1994 to celebrate the origins and evolution of jazz.

Most of the historical park property consists of 4 acres (16,000 m²) within Louis Armstrong Park leased by the National Park Service. There is an office, a visitor center, and a concert venue several blocks away in the French Quarter. The Park provides a setting for sharing the cultural history of the people and places which helped to shape the development and progression of jazz in New Orleans. National Park Service staff present information and resources associated with the origins and early development of jazz, through interpretive techniques designed to educate and entertain.

Perseverance Hall No. 4

Main article: Perseverance Hall No. 4

The centerpiece of the site is Perseverance Hall No. 4. Originally a Masonic Lodge, it was built between 1819 and 1820, making it the oldest Masonic temple in Louisiana.

Perseverance Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 2, 1973. The entire National Historical Park was administratively listed on the Register on the date of its authorization, October 31, 1994.

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  Entrance to Louis Armstrong Park

See also

• Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, with some of its constituent properties located in or near New Orleans

References

General references:

• The National Parks: Index 2001–2003. Washington: U.S. Department of the Interior

Specific references:

External links

• Official NPS website
• Archived NPS website, with more information about the structures and history of the park
• New Orleans Jazz NHP - Evolution of the Jazz Complex, a 2001 article from Vol. 24, No. 2 of the NPS Cultural Resource Management magazine
• Official National Parks Foundation website