Andrew Jackson Hotel
The site at 919 Royal Street began as a Spanish colonial boarding school for boys, many orphaned by yellow fever, until the great French Quarter fires of 1794 reduced it to ash and, by legend, claimed five young boys trapped inside. A federal courthouse later rose here, where General Andrew Jackson was famously held in contempt after the Battle of New Orleans, and the present brick hotel with its wrought-iron balconies went up in 1890.
Guests have long reported childlike laughter and small running footsteps in the courtyard after midnight, faucets and televisions flicking on by themselves, and covers tugged from beds by unseen hands. Room 208 is named most often, said to belong to a mischievous boy called Armand, while a quieter female apparition tidies rooms as if still minding her charges.
📍 919 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA 70116, New Orleans, LA · Get directions