New Orleans, Louisiana: Home Of Madame LaLaurie: Torturer, Murderer, Socialite
1830s horror house where enslaved people were tortured and murdered by affluent French-Creole Delphine LaLaurie. Tourists still stand in the street and gawk.
The LaLaurie Mansion
- Address:
- 1140 Royal St., New Orleans, LA
- Directions:
- The LaLaurie Mansion, SE corner of Royal St. and Gov. Nicholls St. Private property - visible from street.
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Be sure to stop and check out the LaLaurie Mansion if you can make it there during the Halloween season. The current owner has embraced the home's dark past with a display in an unused doorway. It's behind bars, so visitors can't disturb it.
[Agent Summer, 07/11/2017]
It's a cool house with some spooky history. Lots of tourist packs surrounding it. But it's private, so you're just standing on a street looking at a house.
[Mike, 08/24/2016]Feb. 2017: Photo added.
Madame LaLaurie, was a Louisiana-born socialite and serial killer known for the torture and murder of slaves.
[Michael, 02/05/2015]The notorious torture chamber lady and her home were adapted into a season of "American Horror Story." Said to be haunted. Owned by Nicolas Cage before its 2009 foreclosure. Since renovated into upscale private apartments, but tour groups gawk from outside.
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Madame LaLaurie was infamous for torturing her household slaves.