A self-guided route you drive or walk, in your own car, on your own day.
American Horror Story: Coven from Royal Street to Freret Street: Madame LaLaurie's house outside and in, Miss Robichaux's Academy, the cemetery of the jazz funeral and the bar where Fiona drinks.
All of them, free to read. The app sorts them as you go.
5 stops
ajay_suresh, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons01Admission
The scene
Coven opens in 1834 inside Madame LaLaurie's mansion, and later in the first episode the witches tour the same house as a museum. The museum that runs this house says Gallier House plays its outside, while its sister house on St. Louis Street plays the rooms. The real LaLaurie Mansion is two doors along, at the corner of Governor Nicholls Street, and is a private home; the tourism guides send fans there, but the front on screen is this one. Only the museum names this house, so the stop is reported. Gallier House is a museum with tours; the street is open.
1132 Royal St, New Orleans, LA
Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons02Admission
The Week
Every stop is free to read here. The Week guides you through it on the day. Across 5.1 mi of driving, it keeps the nearest stop next, even with no signal. It covers both routes.
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Get the Week in the app, $4.99New Orleans, Louisiana's Crescent City
The Coven Drive
Sorted by distance on the day
It starts at Gallier House, 1132 Royal St, New Orleans, LA and ends at Cure, 4905 Freret St, New Orleans, LA. The stops are ordered so the route does not double back.
20 min driving between 5 stops, covering 5.1 miles. That is the measured travel alone. How long you stay at each stop is up to you.
Not all of them are walk-ups. Gallier House needs a ticket; Hermann-Grima House needs a ticket; Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 can only be seen on a guided tour. The rest are public and free to stand at.
American Horror Story: Coven, across 5 locations in and around New Orleans.
The scene
The first episode opens in Madame LaLaurie's mansion in 1834, Kathy Bates as its mistress. The museum that runs this house says the Hermann-Grima House stands in for those interiors, with Gallier House on Royal Street as the outside, and Louisiana's tourism office suggests fans start here. From St. Louis Street you see the red brick front; the rooms and the courtyard are on the museum's guided tours.
820 St Louis St, New Orleans, LA
Jeff Hitchcock, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons03From the street
The scene
This is the school. Louisiana's tourism office says Miss Robichaux's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies is housed in the Buckner Mansion, and New Orleans & Company says the house plays the academy in seasons three and eight, Coven and Apocalypse, and that fans come to photograph it. The white galleries on Jackson Avenue are the school's front all season. It is privately owned and not open to visitors; look from the pavement on Jackson Avenue at Coliseum Street.
1410 Jackson Ave, New Orleans, LA
Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons04Tour only
The scene
Louisiana's tourism office places a jazz funeral here in episode ten, The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks, and calls the cemetery the setting for the coven's witchy business. It is the only publisher that does, and a 2013 fan guide thought the funeral was at Lafayette Cemetery No. 2, so the stop is reported. The cemetery closed in 2019 and reopened on 1 October 2026 for small guided tours, booked through the Preservation Resource Center; without one you see the tombs through the Washington Avenue gate, across from Commander's Palace.
1400 Washington Ave, New Orleans, LA
Chelsea Marie Hicks, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons05Events venue
The scene
In September 2013 trailers marked Fiona and Cordelia pulled up on Freret Street, and the crew filmed inside Cure for a mid-season episode, Uptown Messenger reported. The show's location manager, Virginia McCollum, said the script called for an upscale eatery or club and the bar felt right for the character, and the owner, Neal Bodenheimer, said they wanted the room as it was, so very little was changed. Louisiana's tourism office says this is where Fiona is seen sipping a martini. Cure is a working cocktail bar, and the long room behind the door is the one on screen.
4905 Freret St, New Orleans, LA