Henry Howard Hotel
One of the Garden District’s most over-the-top wedding-cake mansions, designed by local grandee Henry Howard in 1867 and previously a badly run B&B, has been completely revamped and converted into a sweet 18-room hotel with high aspirations for service and design. Custom wallpaper with Mississippi riverboat motifs, a saxophone as above-the-bed art, a low-key parlor bar for guests as well as neighbors, a deftly curated Instagram account—this is one of New Orleans’s first new-generation hotels, and a welcome addition to the developing Lower Garden District.
PRO TIP: Look for original portraiture by local artist Hayley Gaberlavage as well as custom iron beds—black with gold accents—by local iron-worker Alex Geriner of Doorman Designs.
THE DETAILS: Rooms from $169.
