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Put on Something Black and Take this AHS Coven Tour in New Orleans

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Did anyone else watch American Horror Story: Coven and secretly want to be a part of it? Well, wear something black and buckle up for this American Horror Story New Orleans tour!

American Horror Story New Orleans Tour

There are so many unique tours to take in New Orleans that it can be a little hard to pick which one(s) to do, but I was super excited when I found out about this filming location tour that is based on the American Horror Story show – specifically the Coven season.

I love this show, but Coven was by far one of my top favorite seasons. Who doesn’t love witches and Jessica Lange?

This in-depth walking tour lasts about two hours and explores the significant locations within the historic French Quarter that were featured in American Horror Story: Coven. The tour guides are very knowledgeable, experienced, and entertaining. Not only are you visiting filming locations and talking about the fictional television show, but you’re also visiting real historical locations with a ton of real history that is already naturally spooky. The guides weave the storyline between the fiction and fact while explaining just how much of the show was based on real-life events.

For instance — did you know that Madame LaLaurie – played by none other than Kathi Bates – was very much a real person and many of the things that were depicted in the show actually happened. During this tour, you’ll visit the spot where Madame LaLaurie lived and where her body was exhumed.

And, we’ve all heard of the ‘Voodoo Queen’ Marie Laveau – played by Angela Bassett in American Horror Story. You’ll be able to visit not only her tomb in St Louis Cemetery No.1 but also visit the house in which she once lived.

What Locations are Included in the Tour?

I don’t want to give up all of their secrets and locations, but I do want you to know what filming sites you’ll be visiting.

• The location where they dug up Madam LaLaurie’s body – in the show.

• The location where the witches put on their best black clothing and go on a “field trip” and you get to re-create your own Witches’ Walk!

• A historic home where interior and exterior shots were filmed.

• Congo Square which has a lot of historical and cultural meaning.

• The site of Marie Laveau’s former home (in real life!)

• A historic home where exterior scenes were shot of Madame LaLaurie’s parties and more.

• The real LaLaurie Mansion which Nicholas Cage owned for a period of time before he went bankrupt.
• St Louis Cemetery No. 1 where you will be focused on three tombs – Marie Laveau, Madame LaLaurie, and the future tomb of Nicolas Cage. Yep, you read that right!
• And, other spots!

My Thoughts on the Guide

The guide will vary and so I can’t guarantee that you’ll have the same one on your tour. But, I was very impressed with ours – Terese.

I received an email ahead of time letting me know where we would be meeting and what she would be wearing. She let me know she’d also be carrying a black umbrella – how perfect!

She was extremely friendly and knew her stuff – both about the show and about New Orleans. You could tell she had a passion for being a guide and showing off all the great and weird things about New Orleans .

Tip: Make sure to tip guides when you take tours. This is a big chunk of their pay. 

American Horror Story Coven New Orleans Locations Not on the Tour

In order to make this tour not last all day or have you walk way too much, there are a few filming locations that are not included in the tour. Terese was kind of enough to tell us about them if we wanted to go seek them out on our own.

Buckner Mansion (a.k.a Miss Robichaux’s Academy)

The Buckner Mansion is located in the Garden District and is shots were filmed for the exterior of the Academy.

Popp’s Fountain

Not an actual filming location but Terese told us about Popp’s Fountain in City Park. In the 1970s, this was known as gathering place for witches specifically a coven founded by Mary Oneida. Mary founded the first witch coven to be recognized by the State of Louisiana as a church and is still in existence today – known as the Religious Order of Witchcraft. It is thought that this fountain is a fountain of youth.

Lafayette Cemetery No. 2

Site of the jazz funeral in episode 10.

What Other Tours are Offered?

If American Horror Story isn’t your thing or you have time to do more than one tour, New Orleans Film Tours offers several other options!

• The Originals Fan Tour
• NCIS New Orleans Fan Tour
• St Louis Cemetery 1 Tour
• Garden District Film & Cemetery Tour
• Ghostly Galavant

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Ashley Hubbard

Ashley Hubbard is a writer, photographer, and blogger based in Nashville, Tennessee. When she's not searching out the strange and unusual things in life, she's searching out vegan food and is passionate about sustainability, animal rights, and social justice.

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Hi! Just wondering which tour company you used. Thanks!

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How do I book the AHS tour that you went on? I don’t see the link in this blog. Planning on going in February.

Thanks so much!

I will be in New Orleans in April are you still offering the tour

I can’t find the link to the tour for AHS. Will you please share it with me?

Thank you, Angie

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Hey! Will AHS tour be avaliable in Oct. 2022? I don’t see a link I can use to book. Thank you!

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• Mobile Voucher Accepted
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• Duration: 2 Hrs
• Language: English
• Departure Time : 9:00 AM
• Departure Details : 415 Chartres St, New Orleans, LA 70130, USA
• Return Details : The LaLaurie Mansion, 1140 Royal St, New Orleans, LA 70116, USA
• Cancellation Policy : For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience. Tours booked using discount coupon codes will be non refundable.

This in-depth, two hour walking tour is devoted to to exploring the significant locations in the historic French Quarter which were featured in the popular cult TV series, American Horror Story - Coven. Your experienced and knowledgeable tour guide will explain the historical overlaps between the characters depicted in the show and true stories of their real life namesakes. You will learn about the evil murderer Madame LaLaurie and visit the place where her body was exhumed. You'll also visit the site where the Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveau, once lived. In addition to learning the rich history of these real life characters and visiting important landmarks from the show and their real lives, you will be taken through St. louis cemetery #1 and visit Marie Laveau and Madame LaLaurie tombs as well as Nick Cages pyramid tomb. On this tour, you'll walk in the footsteps of Fiona, Marie Laveau, Madame LaLaurie, and the witches.

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Itinerary This is a typical itinerary for this product Stop At: Chartres Street, New orleans , Louisiana Gathering at the rear of the Old Louisiana Court of Appeals, you will meet your enthusiastic and wise tour guide. Please make sure you bring a camera, as you will want to capture memories of the many amazing things you will learn about the historic sites and people incorporated into the American Horror Story (Coven) TV show. You will see where Marie Laveau and Madame LaLaurie lived and where they socialized, in addition to visiting the locations where significant events happened, both in the show and in real life! Duration: 5 minutes Stop At: New orleans Pharmacy Museum, New orleans , Louisiana The first stop after this gruesome introduction will be the site where Madame LaLauries body was exhumed by Fiona Goode (Jessica Lange) and her sinister henchmen. Duration: 15 minutes Stop At: French quarter , New Orleans, Louisiana Then its off to the location where Fiona and the young witches, dressed in black, perform the powerful and chilling witches walk. You will get a chance to take pictures and/or video of yourself walking in the those very same spooky footsteps. You will stop at several places along the walk and be reminded of some famous lines, such as when Madison says, Where are we going? My p*@#y is starting to sweat.. At the end of the walk, you will have the chance to stop at a few places for memorable shots from the witches walk. Duration: 15 minutes Stop At: French quarter , New Orleans, Louisiana From there, you will head over to the magnificent historic house featured on the show as a museum where many interior scenes, both past and present, were filmed. Your guide will explain various scenes from the show that were filmed on location at this site. Duration: 20 minutes Stop At: St. louis cemetery No. 1, New Orleans, Louisiana Leaving this location, youll head to the St Louis Cemetery #1, where you will visit three very significant tombs. Firstly, you will see the reputed tomb of voodoo priestess, Marie Laveau (who is said to still haunt the French Quarter). It is said to be the second-most visited tomb in the US. Next, youll visit movie actor, Nick Cages pyramid tomb and learn why he chose New Orleans St Louis Cemetery #1 for his final resting place. The last stop in the cemetery is the tomb of Madame LaLaurie, the infamous sadistic slave torturer who was run out of the city by enraged local citizens. Despite her infamy, youll learn how she came to be buried in this cemetery, after being forced into exile in Paris, France after her crimes were uncovered. Duration: 25 minutes Stop At: Louis armstrong park , New Orleans, Louisiana Leaving the cemetery, the next destination is Congo square , where youll learn about its significance in music and the voodoo rituals famously performed there, both in real life and in American Horror Story. Duration: 15 minutes Stop At: French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana You will then visit the site of Marie Laveaus former home. In those mysterious walls, you will learn more about Laveaus life and how those facts were integrated into American Horror Story. You will also learn why Marie Laveau called on Papa Legba, and uncover the truth about some of the legends of Marie Laveau. Duration: 15 minutes Stop At: French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana Now you will head to the location where two of New Orleans most popular Voodoo shops are located. Voodoo is a real religion and you will learn about its history, and how it came from Africa and Haiti to New Orleans. Voodoo and zombies are closely linked and you will definitely learn more about this, along with the origin of zombies in New Orleans. Your guide will fill you in on the specific scenes in American Horror Story that dealt with voodoo, hoodoo, zombies and the origin of voodoo dolls in New Orleans. Duration: 15 minutes Stop At: French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana Your next stop is the townhouse where the exterior scenes for American Horror Story were filmed, which is also the location for the torture chamber scenes. Duration: 15 minutes Stop At: Lalaurie mansion , New Orleans, Louisiana The tour ends at the Lalaurie mansion , where you will be told its dreadful history and terrible legacy. Finally, your tour guide will separate truth from movie magic in regards to the house fire depicted in the show. The tour ends here, and you will be able to take pictures and as much video as you like before heading back to visit the museum and/or other historic buildings. Duration: 15 minutes

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Entry fee to St. Louis Cemetery 1 to see Marie Laveau's, Madam LaLaurie's and Nick Cages tombs.

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We had a great time on our morning walking tour with Therese. She was friendly and knowledgeable with some great facts to share about both the show and the French Quarter. Would definitely recommend.

This was a really great walking tour. We learned a lot about the history of the city and saw important sites with a mix of AHS coven thrown in. I had not seen the series in a few years, but the guide made sure to show pictures of the scenes she was explaining which was really helpful. I would recommend this tour!

I had lots of fun, but it ran a little longer than I anticipated. Already being a fan of the show, the play by play of scenes seemed gratuitous.

Terese was a great guide. She really takes pride in her job and even gets into the characters. Highly recommend this to all AHS fans!

Very informative and Bea was great! Wrapped American Horror Story into New Orleans history...was a great tour!

Our Guide was named Bea. She was very good and had a wonderful personality. Going to re-watch the show just to see the sights again.

Our tour guide was Ryan and he rocked!! We passed several other tours and could overheat their tour guide and he was by far the most informative and interesting! 10/10 recommend!! Definitely wear comfy shoes, arrive early, and be sure Your bladder can go an hour and so!

My sister and I did the tour this past Mardi Gras weekend on Monday and we thoroughly enjoyed it. It was extremely cold out but that didn't stop our group of 15. Ms.Bee was extremely knowledgeable about AHS and the history of New Orleans . I would highly recommend this tour. Thanks again Ms. Bee!

Good tour, very informative. Tour guide was pleasant

Tour was amazing!

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New Orleans’s ultimate horror movie filming locations map

From “Interview with the Vampire” to “American Horror Story”

NOLA’s history of witchcraft, its geography dotted with decaying above-ground cemeteries, and a reputation for housing all manner of fictional vampires makes it an ideal setting for celebrating the art of the scare. Not to mention that, thanks to its French colonial-style architecture, moss-hung oaks, and buttery subtropical light, it may be the most hauntingly photogenic city of all time.

Hollywood has certainly taken advantage of the Crescent City’s atmosphere over the years. Indeed, the city once known as Hollywood South (a title now held by Atlanta) and its outlying areas have become a popular shooting location for an impressive number of horror films and TV shows.

In 1964, the Bette Davis-Olivia De Havilland horror film Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte exploited the spooky potential of 19th-century plantation homes to great effect. In 1994, the city hosted Hollywood mega-stars Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt for the adaptation of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire . Producer Ryan Murphy used the city as a backdrop for two gruesome seasons of American Horror Story, and most recently, it served as a backdrop for The Purge, a hyper-violent miniseries on USA Network.

To celebrate the city’s long history as a haven for some of Tinseltown’s ghastliest visions, we’ve put together a handy map of locations featured in horror films and TV shows, from the sprawling plantations west of the city to NOLA’s patchwork of cemeteries, churches, and late-night dive bars.

Urbania House

You know a house has made it when it has its own IMDB listing. The Lower Garden District’s Urbania House was featured as the primary set in Hell Baby, a 2013 flick that details the trope-tastic story of a couple who moves into the beautifully decayed but sinister mansion. The pregnant wife becomes possessed; exorcisms ensure, and a devil baby is born in what Urbania owner Banks McClintock describes as “the goofiest horror film ever... best enjoyed while possessed by New Orleans spirits in libation form.”

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Otis House (‘Eve’s Bayou’)

Eve’s Bayou isn’t a horror movie per se, but its moody rural Louisiana setting and themes of voodoo certainly tip their hat to the genre. The Queen Anne-style home where the secret-plagued Batiste family lives is the historic Otis House, a sprawling mansion located in Fairview-Riverside State Park (and also heavily featured in Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond ). Built in 1885 for lumber baron William Theodore Jay, the home and surrounding grounds were eventually donated to the state of Louisiana and are now open to the public .

Houmas House Plantation and Gardens (‘Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte’)

The Houmas House Plantation has been a popular filming location for decades, but it is most associated with the 1964 “hagsploitation” classic Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte, which used it as the home of unhinged spinster Charlotte Hollis (Bette Davis). Interested parties can take a guided tour of the house and grounds, including the bedroom where Davis reportedly slept during filming . 

Evergreen Plantation (‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’)

The Evergreen Plantation in Wallace was used as the home of 5,000-year-old vampire leader Adam (Rufus Sewell) in the film adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s horror mashup novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. One of the best-preserved antebellum plantations in the South, the grounds’ 22 intact slave cabins provide a window into a truly horrifying chapter of America’s past. “Shooting at the site of unspeakable sins and tragedy was a haunting experience for the crew,” wrote the film’s production designer Francois Audouy on his personal blog . The Greek Revival home, which boasts eye-catching twin staircases in front, was also memorably featured in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained in 2012.

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Felicity Plantation (‘The Skeleton Key’)

The home where Caroline (Kate Hudson) cares for the elderly Benjamin Devereaux (John Hurt) in this 2005 hoodoo horror flick is the historic Felicity Plantation, located just down Highway 18 from both Oak Alley and its sister plantation St. Joseph. Built in the mid-19th century, the house was also featured in 12 Years a Slave as the house of sadistic slave owner Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender). 

Oak Alley Plantation (‘Interview with the Vampire’)

Oak Alley in Vacherie doubles as slave owner and future vampire Louis’ (Brad Pitt) picturesque plantation. Framed by 28 curving oak trees, the Greek Revival mansion was completed in 1839 and opened to the public in 1972. The house and grounds subsequently became a popular filming location used in movies and TV shows including Primary Colors, Ghost Hunters, The Long Hot Summer, and the music video for Beyonce’s 2006 single “Deja Vu.”

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Boomerang’s (‘Bug’)

Ashley Judd’s down-and-out waitress works at this New Sarpy dive bar in Exorcist director William Friedkin’s claustrophobic 2006 psychological horror film Bug . The motel room where the majority of the film takes place was constructed inside the gymnasium at Grace King High School in Metairie.

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Hotel Royal (‘The Originals’)

The Originals ’ Marcel (Charles Michael Davis) throws a mean party at Hotel Royal, a restored 1827 Creole townhouse located in the French Quarter.

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Madame John’s Legacy (‘Interview with the Vampire’)

In Interview with the Vampire , an unlucky family murdered by Lestat (Tom Cruise) and Claudia (Kirsten Dunst) are carried out of this historic French Quarter home in coffins. Completed way back in 1788, the French Colonial cottage is now owned by the Louisiana State Museum and is available to tour.

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St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 (‘The Beyond’)

The historic St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 was one of the many New Orleans locations used in Lucio Fulci’s 1981 supernatural gore-fest The Beyond . Opened in 1789, the above-ground graveyard it is rumored to contain the remains of of voodoo priestess Marie Laveau. It is also the home of a controversial nine-foot-tall pyramid-shaped mausoleum installed by actor Nicolas Cage in 2010.

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The Camellia Grill (‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’)

Though American Horror Story ’s fourth season is technically set in Jupiter, Florida, Elsa Mars (Jessica Lange) recruits Jimmy Darling (Evan Peters) for her freak show at the iconic New Orleans diner Camellia Grill. The no-frills eatery opened in 1946 and has since spawned a spin-off restaurant called The Grille in Metairie. 

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Tulane University (‘Scream Queens’)

Tulane’s campus doubled for the fictional Wallace University in FX’s short-lived horror-comedy series starring Emma Roberts and Jamie Lee Curtis. In addition to making use of several classrooms, the series filmed in Lavin-Bernick Center dining hall, Newcomb Quad, and in front of the imposing, Richardsonian Romanesque Gibson Hall. (Note: The series also filmed some scenes at adjacent Loyola University.)

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Cure (‘American Horror Story: Coven’)

Fiona (Jessica Lange) and Cordelia (Sarah Paulson) imbibe at this firehouse-turned-cocktail-bar on Freret Street in Episode 3 of American Horror Story: Coven . In addition to being a popular filming location ( Focus, The Mechanic, Broken City ), the upscale establishment is known for its quality cocktails and has been named one of the city’s essential drinking spots .

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Loyola University (‘Happy Death Day’)

This hybrid of Groundhog Day and Scream was filmed almost entirely at New Orleans’ Loyola University. Exteriors of the dorm where Tree (Jessica Rothe) wakes up (over and over again) were shot at the campus’s picturesque Marquette Hall, while her perennial morning walk was filmed in the sculpture garden on the backside of the building. Her sorority house, meanwhile, is located right down the street at the university-owned Veritas Hall , a gorgeous 20,000 square foot mansion built in 1906.

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Buckner Mansion (‘American Horror Story: Coven’)

The 20,000 square foot Buckner Mansion portrays the exterior of Miss Robichaux’s Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies (ahem, witches) in Season 3 of the grisly FX anthology series. Built in 1856 for the clearly-ostentatious cotton magnate Henry S. Buckner, the mansion was once available as a vacation rental , though it appears to be off the market for the time being.

3010 Sandra Dr

Set in an unnamed American city, The Purge is a 10-episode miniseries detailing a dystopian society and its yearly, 12-hour bloodbath—a time when citizens can rob, kill, maim, mutilate, and otherwise harm their fellow men without fear of legal retribution. One of its characters, Miguel, stumbles upon this graffiti-adorned former apartment development on the West Bank, which functions as a sort of hideout for bad guys. The show has received mixed reviews from critics, but even if you’re not a fan, this mammoth art installation by Brandan “Bmike” Odums and crew is worth a trip across the Crescent City Connection.

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St. Alphonsus Church (‘Angel Heart’)

“Churches give me the creeps,” Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) tells Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) in the cult 1987 horror film Angel Heart . That line is spoken inside the former St. Alphonsus Church, located in New Orleans’s Irish Channel neighborhood. Built in 1857, the Italianate church (now a community center) is notable for its association with Anne Rice, who attended it as a child and later credited it with inspiring her writing .

Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 (‘The Originals’)

The witches of CW’s The Originals commune with their Ancestors in this above-ground cemetery located on Washington Avenue. Like St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, the site drips with Gothic ambiance that lends itself well to Hollywood genre films, from Dracula 2000 to the Ashley Judd vehicle Double Jeopardy . In literature, it also serves as the burial ground of the Mayfair Witches, whose creator Anne Rice once staged her own funeral here to promote the release of her 1995 novel Memnoch the Devil .

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Audubon Zoo (‘Cat People’)

Though many of the zoo scenes in Paul Schrader’s slick Cat People remake were shot on sets created specifically for the movie, the production also filmed portions at NOLA’s Audubon Zoo. In a grisly case of life imitating art, one of the park’s jaguars escaped its enclosure and killed several other animals before being recaptured.

The Brown Mansion (‘Preacher’)

Said to be the largest—and certainly the most imposing—mansion along St. Charles Avenue, this Richardsonian Romanesque Revival stunner makes a fitting home for Tulip O’Hare’s mobster ex-husband Viktor Kruglov (Paul Ben-Victor) on AMC’s blood-drenched comic book adaptation Preacher .

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F&M Patio Bar (‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’)

The disturbed Dandy (Finn Wittrock) picks up very unlucky hustler Andy (Matt Bomer) at this Tchoupitoulas Street bar on an episode of American Horror Story: Freak Show . Appropriately, the dive-y institution (complete with leopard print pool table) is said to be busiest after midnight.

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Creedmoor Plantation (‘The Last Exorcism’)

The Creedmoor Plantation in St. Bernard offered an ideal setting for the 2010 found footage horror hit The Last Exorcism, which relied on its remote location for extra creepiness. The circa 1840 Greek Revival home sustained damage in Hurricane Katrina, and according to cast member Louis Herthum, at the time of filming it hadn’t entirely recovered. “They had replaced the floorboards,” he told Scene Magazine in a 2010 interview , “but everything still seemed warped.”

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American Horror Story: Coven Location Guide

Filmed in New Orleans, this season of “American Horror Story” takes viewers to some of the city’s oldest mansions, a notorious haunted house and possible fountain of youth in City Park.  Compiled by Anne Wheeler 

Scroll down for a map of all the locations, and see our Facebook album with pics of Emma Roberts and Evan Peters spotted in New Orleans here . Enjoy our complete American Horror Story Coven: Location Guide.

 EPISODE 1: BITCHCRAFT

Miss Robicheaux’s Academy aka  Buckner Mansion 1410 Jackson Ave. in the Garden District

The Buckner Mansion was built in 1856 by cotton magnate Henry S. Buckner. The mansion was built to outdo his ex-business partner’s well-known Stanton Hall mansion in Natchez, Mississippi. The Buckner Mansion has galleries on three sides, an amazing honeysuckle motif cast iron fence and a triple ballroom. The mansion served as a home to the Buckner family until 1923, when the prestigious Soule Business School moved in. Soule was the best business school in the South until it closed doors in 1983. The mansion is now a private residence, available as a vacation rental for the tidy sum of $20,000. According to the show’s Facebook page “Extreme precaution was taken to not damage the 156-year-old mansion.” It’s a popular photo spot in the Garden District though, so join the other fans parked in front for a photo opp.

The plaque outside the gateway

Tau Omega Alpha Fraternity House aka Round Table Clubhouse 6330 St. Charles Ave. across from Tulane University

The property located at 6330 St. Charles Ave. sits across the street from Tulane and borders Audubon Park . The building has served as a clubhouse for The Round Table Club since 1919 and provides ample meeting and social space on the lower floor and has housed club members in the bedrooms over the social space. The Round Table Club was founded in 1898 as a social club with interest in literature , art and science. The club is still active, hosting lectures each Thursday evening, from October through June, and is available as an event venue for weddings and other social occasions.

The adjacent Audubon Park is an active production site for “American Horror Story: Coven,” as evidenced by the large hospitality tent located on the park grounds. The tent is visible from St. Charles Avenue and the park grounds.

Lalaurie Mansion aka Madame Lalaurie’s House of Horrors 1140 Royal St. in the French Quarter

The highlight of every French Quarter ghost tour, the Lalaurie Mansion (pictured above) stands at the corner of Royal and Governor Nicholls. The mansion was finished in 1832 and included an attached slave quarters. Madame Lalaurie owned the property in her own name and lived in the house with her husband and two of her daughters. The story goes that a fire ravaged the Lalaurie Mansion in 1834. Bystanders broke down the doors and found several mutilated slaves imprisoned in the attic and at least one chained to a stove in the kitchen. After the tortured slaves story circulated throughout New Orleans’ high society, the mansion was ransacked by a mob. Madame Lalaurie fled the city, likely to an apartment in Paris, never to be seen again. The mansion remained in a ruined state until 1836, when it was restored in a manner that made the building unrecognizable by 1888. The building eventually became a furniture and barber shop, girls’ high school, music conservatory and, at some point, the Haunted Saloon and luxury apartments. The mansion was converted back to a private home and has been owned by the likes of Nicholas Cage, who lost the property due to back taxes in 2009. A few years ago, several graves were found on the property, but Madame Lalaurie’s whereabouts are still unknown. Texas energy trader Michael Whalen is reported to be the new owner of the home. See nola.com’s interview with his interior designer and photos here .

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 On a recent weekend, the house was modestly decorated for Christmas and it wasn’t uncommon to see two or three ghost tours stopped in front at night.

Gallier House aka the exterior of Madame Lalaurie’s Mansion

Nan stops at the Lalaurie mansion during the witches walk. Exterior shots used in the show are the Gallier House, a mid 1850s building, designated as a National Historic Landmark, and operated as a historic house museum. The house was built by prominent New Orleans architect James Gallier Jr. and features full furnishings typical of 1850s New Orleans, a courtyard garden and slave quarters. The house is open to the public for tours.

Hermann-Grima House aka the interior of Madame Lalaurie’s Mansion

In the episode’s opening scenes in Madame Lalaurie’s parlor, the Hermann-Grima’s yellow walls, red curtains and crystal chandelier are noticeable. This house is an 1831 Federal mansion, designated as a National Historic Landmark, and also operated as a historic house museum. The Hermann-Grima House has the only 1830s open-hearth kitchen and horse stable still in existence in the French Quarter and has been painstakingly restored to depict the lifestyle of an affluent Creole family in 1830s New Orleans. The house is open to the public for tours.

  Parlor at the Hermann-Grima House

Kathy Bates as Madame Lalaurie

Popp’s Fountain 30 Zachary Taylor Dr. in City Park

Mentioned at the tail-end of the episode as “a kind of holy place for our order” by Jessica Lange during the witch walk through the French Quarter, Popp’s Fountain wasn’t shown but could become a symbolic spot in the future. John F. Popp, a prominent businessman, donated money to City Park in 1917 for the City Park Bandstand. He died shortly after the bandstand’s dedication and, upon his death, his descendants donated additional money to the park to build a fountain in his memory. The fountain and a promenade supported by 26 Corinthian columns was dedicated in 1934. The Works Progress Administration added tile walkways and landscaping and contracted Enrique Alvarez to sculpt a bronze fountainhead in the design of leaping dolphins. Popp’s Fountain was restored in 1999 but suffered extensive damage in 2005 from Hurricane Katrina. The fountain flowed again in 2007 and is now fully restored and available as an event space for weddings and galas.

Vacherie Restaurant from the Witches Walk  827 Toulouse St. in the French Quarter

Located on the first floor of the Hotel St. Marie, at the corner of Toulouse and Dauphine Streets, Vacherie consists of a restaurant, bar and cafe. Its little gold sign was readable when the witches walk through the French Quarter. The restaurant is named for a small community situated on the banks of the Mississippi River west of New Orleans in Plantation Country. Chef Jarred Zeringue grew up there, and his menu is inspired by his hometown. The cafe serves breakfast, sandwiches, salads and carryout items. The restaurant’s dinner menu includes items like Gritcake and collards, fried green tomato and shrimp remoulade poboy, boudin-stuffed deep fried hen and Oysters Rockefeller with French bread. The bar also serves up a good selection of starters, along with cocktails of course. The bar and cafe are open seven days a week, while the restaurant serves dinner Monday through Saturday.

EPISODE 2: BOY PARTS 

New Orleans Adolescent Hospital  where Zombie Kyle Rises Again 210 State St. Uptown

This hospital was once a pre-Civil War plantation brickyard and shoddy cottage fronting Tchoupitoulas Street. The site became the New Orleans Marine Hospital sometime in the mid-1800s and has since served as the Public Health Service Hospital and New Orleans Adolescent Hospital. The site is enclosed in a brick and iron fence with manned gaurdhouses. It’s also overgrown and home to several feral cats since the New Orleans Adolescent Hospital left in 2009, so basically the perfect spot to stage the morgue Frankenstein boyfriend scene in episode 2. It was announced earlier this year that Children’s Hospital has acquired and wants to reopen the old hospital, but not timeline for reopening has been set.

Update: In the comments, someone let us know that the interior morgue scenes were shot in the basement of International High School at 727 Carondelet Street. 

Maison Vitry aka Marie Laveau’s Cornrow City Salon   Corner of Dumaine and N. Prieur streets in Treme

We’ve seen Maison Vitry in many episodes now, including when Fiona visits Marie Laveau at her salon/voodoo parlor and Cordelia does the same seeking help with her fertility problem.

Chubbie’s Fried Chicken where Queenie worked 4850 General Meyer Ave. on the Westbank

In this episode, we find out that Queenie is at Miss Robicheaux’s Academy because she used her witchy voodoo to hurt a rude customer at Chubbie’s by sticking her hand in hot frying oil. Later, in the second to last episode titled “Go to Hell,” she goes back to the restaurant and is visited by Papa Legba, who tells her that frying chicken is her “hell” because it was the worst time in her life.

Crescent City Connection  where Zoe drives Zombie Kyle to the swamp 

The Crescent City Connection (CCC) spans the Mississippi River, connecting the east and west banks of New Orleans. The CCC is the furthest downstream bridge on the Mississippi River and the busiest bridge on the lower Mississippi. The original span of the bridge was built between 1954 and 1958, with the second span completed in 1988. The bridge has been used in several films and television shows including, “Déjà Vu,” “Treme” and “A Love Song for Bobby Long.”

Bridge featured in a promo for the show (via  American Horror Story )

The CCC serves as the background for the second episode scene in which Zoe is driving with the newly assembled Kyle, when Misty Day appears in the backseat, prompting their drive to the swamps. If the trio were driving across the Crescent City Connection in real life, they would instead wind-up in the land of pho restaurants, strip malls and Target.

Royal Street at the end of episode 2 

Royal Street is a block off of, and runs parallel to, Bourbon Street, from Canal Street to Jackson Barracks at the edge of Orleans Parish. Royal Street is home to posh antique shops and art galleries, selling centuries-old treasures, with prices much too rich for the averages tourist’s blood. But the window shopping is exquisite. Royal Street of today could easily be confused with Royal Street of 200 years ago. Buildings along Royal are still graced with gorgeous wrought-iron galleries and balconies, making it easy to fancy seeing Madame Lalaurie, who lived at the corner of Governor Nicholls, or Marie Laveau passing behind a partially shuttered window.

In this episode, Fiona and Madame Lalaurie are shown sitting against a building on Royal Street, and then walking up the street toward Canal in the closing scene.

Same view down Royal Street

EPISODE 3: THE REPLACEMENTS

Cure where Fiona has a martini at the bar  4905 Freret St. Uptown

Cure is a hip (it doesn’t have a sign!), fancy-pants bar located on New Orleans’ up-and-coming Freret Street. Cure is constantly topping “best” lists for its innovative craft cocktails and cool atmosphere. The bar’s menu offers an ever-changing list of artisanal cocktails, and the shirt-sleeved bartenders can concoct anything to suit your pallet. Be sure to try the labor-intensive, but best in the city, Ramos Gin Fizz (tip your bartender well for this one), the daily $5 punch or seasonal White Witch.

At the beginning of episode 4 and in episode 5, Cure appeared once again and seems to be Fiona’s favorite spot for a cocktail.

Atchafalaya Restaurant  where Fiona and Madison have brunch   901 Louisiana Ave. in the Irish Channel

According to the restaurant’s website, Atchafalaya is New Orleans’ only five “A” restaurant (get it?!). Atchafalaya is housed in an old shotgun house, beautifully renovated to reflect the building’s history. Oh, and there’s a giant cast-iron skillet plastered to the building’s exterior. Atchafalaya’s menu focuses on seafood and New Orleans fare. Be sure to visit for brunch (with live music) and dine on the likes of Duck Hash, Eggs Treme (with local boudin) and the Fried Green Tomato BLT, while repeatedly visiting the awesome Make-Your-Own Bloody Mary Bar.

Fiona and Madison have brunch and mimosas on the sidewalk at Atchafalaya Restaurant while out and about on their witchy girls’ day.

Ninth Ward aka Kyle’s home

The Ninth Ward is a geographic area of New Orleans. It is the largest ward in New Orleans and is the easternmost, downriver part of the city. The Ninth Ward is divided into three neighborhoods: Upper Ninth Ward, Lower Ninth Ward and New Orleans East, with the Industrial Canal separating the Upper and Lower Ninth Wards. The Ninth Ward was originally cypress swamps, which became the lower end of several plantations spanning from Lake Ponchartrain to the Mississippi River. The area has always been swampy and susceptible to flooding and, also, historically been home to a large black and immigrant population.

During the late 1800s, the Ninth Ward saw the birth of several African American benevolent associations and social clubs which birthed the activism that would later become key in the Civil Rights Movement. The neighborhood was a cornerstone in the desegregation of the Deep South with the arrest of Homer Plessy, and The McDonough Three’s US Marshall-led integration of the formerly all-white McDonough 19 taking place within its boundaries. Several prominent figures in the arts hail from the Ninth Ward, including musicians Fats Domino, the Batiste family and Kermit Ruffins.

Hurricane Katrina brought the Ninth Ward into the national spotlight, when several levee breaches and the storm surge destroyed most of the area, including most housing stock. Since Hurricane Katrina, the ward has experienced a sort of rebirth with several prominent projects helping to rebuild the area, including the Musician’s Village , spearheaded by Harry Connick Jr. and Branford Marsalis, and Brad Pitt’s Make it Right .

In the first episode, Kyle offhandedly mentions he hails from the Ninth Ward. Episode 2 features a scene set in present-day Marie Laveau’s Cornrow City Salon (see Maison Vitry above), located in the Ninth Ward, in which we are treated to a taste of New Orleans bounce, and Marie and Fiona practice a sort of voodoo vs. witchcraft brinksmanship that results in Fiona asking for an elixir of youth before being expelled from the salon. Also, wigs on fire. But we don’t actually go there until Episode 3 when Zoe visits Kyle’s cracked out mom in her shotgun house and later returns him to her.

EPISODE 4: FEARFUL PRANKS ENSUE

No new locations.

EPISODE 5: BURN, WITCH. BURN!

EPISODE 6: THE AXEMAN COMETH

The Victorian Lounge Bar  where Fiona meets the Axeman 3811 St. Charles Ave. in The Columns Hotel

Thanks to the commenter who identified this bar as the one where Fiona meets The Axeman at the end of the episode. Known for its mahogany bar and 15-foot ceilings, this is a romantic spot for a classic cocktail or meeting with a serial killer. Happy hour is seven days a week from 5-7 p.m., and you can also spend the night by booking one of the  hotel’s  20 period rooms. We assume the flashbacks of the Axeman playing his saxophone in episode 7 were filmed here too.

We also wanted to address the Axeman of New Orleans and his ties to jazz in this episode. Believed to be a serial killer who was active in the city from 1918-1919, the Axeman attacked his victims with an axe, often their own. In a March 13, 1919, letter to The Times Picayune, he mentioned his fondness for jazz music. “I swear by all the devils in the nether regions that every person shall be spared in whose home a jazz band is in full swing at the time I have just mentioned,” he wrote. “If everyone has a jazz band going, well, then, so much the better for you people. One thing is certain and that is that some of your people who do not jazz it on Tuesday night (if there be any) will get the axe.”

Needless to say, people began filling the city’s jazz clubs during that time. New Orleans still has some excellent places to hear jazz for those who continue to be afraid of the Axeman’s wrath. He was never caught.

Snug Harbor 626 Frenchman Street in the Faubourg Marigny

This club has been serving up live jazz for more than 30 years and is popular with both Louisiana locals and tourists. Cabaret-type seating ensures an intimate musical experience with two shows nightly. Recent shows have featured Ellis Marsalis, Charmaine Neville and Uptown Jazz Orchestra.

Preservation Hall 726 St. Peter St. in the French Quarter

Founded in 1961 to protect and honor New Orleans jazz, this venue opens at 8 p.m. each evening and welcomes all ages. The Preservation Hall house band usually takes the stage along with guest musicians, and shows run until 11 p.m. Seating is also intimate here in a dancehall-type atmosphere.

EPISODE 7: THE DEAD 

Hell or High Water Tattoo Shop 2035 Magazine St. in the Lower Garden District

This episode opens with Kyle and his frat brothers in a tattoo shop. Toto’s “Rosanna” is blaring, and a singing Kyle’s pallor denotes that this is pre-zombie. As he and his friends decide what tattoos to get, Kyle leaves us with a few memorable one-liners, including “Toto is amazeballs” and “I don’t want to walk into some big meeting with the mayor or governor and roll up my sleeves and have a little Saints logo or Wile E. Coyote or anything.”

Ted’s Frostop  aka Queenie and Madame Lalaurie’s late-night stop for fast food 3100 Calhoun St. Uptown

Queenie and Madame Lalaurie get the late-night munchies and head to Ted’s Frostop for burgers, fries and Strawberry Cyclones. This is Madame’s first experience with fast food, and she daringly suggests they supersize their order. She then goes on to proclaim it the most delicious food she’s eaten in her entire life. Just look for the enormous mug of root beer in the sky, and you’re there.

EPISODE 8: THE SACRED TAKING

EPISODE 9: HEAD

No new locations for the American Horror Story Coven: Location Guide.

EPISODE 10: THE MAGICAL DELIGHTS OF STEVIE NICKS 

We are looking into the location used for St. Ignatius Hospital. Please comment if you have information on this.

Lafayette Cemetery No. 2 , site of the jazz funeral  Washington Avenue at Loyola

Misty and Madison join a jazz funeral procession to the cemetery, where Madison proves she’s just as powerful as Misty by waking a man from the dead and then hitting her over the head with a brick and leaving her in his coffin. Madison then dances through the cemetery twirling the shawl Stevie Nicks gave to Misty.

We see the cemetery again in the next episode during Nan’s funeral. (photo from nola.com)

EPISODE 11: PROTECT THE COVEN

Greyhound Bus Station aka where Zoe and Kyle run away together into the night 1001 Loyola Ave. in the Central Business District

As trouble at Miss Robicheaux’s escalates amid Zoe figuring out who killed Nan and Madison putting her powers to use, Myrtle Snow advises Zoe to take Kyle and leave the coven. “If you stay here, your life is in grave danger,” Myrtle tells her. “Go, you and Kyle run away together and start your life over. If Madison doesn’t end you, Fiona will.” In what was one of the best sequences this season, the two lovers run through the bus station, luggage and tickets in hand, and hop onto a Greyhound. The episode ends with them smiling in their seats.

EPISODE 12: GO TO HELL

Hermann-Grima House , aka Madame Lalaurie’s Mansion  820 St. Louis St.

You can read more about this historic house and the Lalaurie Mansion in the episode 1 entry above, but when Kathy Bates is giving the tour of what is supposed to be the Lalaurie home, she is really in the Hermann-Grima. The Lalaurie Mansion is privately owned and not open for tours, but the Hermann-Grima is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m.-2 -p.m. for tours on the hour.

GENERAL INTEREST

Not mentioned specifically in the show, but this is the place to learn more about Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau and her potions and spells. Played by Angela Bassett, Marie Laveau is sure to become a more prominent character, and this shop carries spell kits, ritual and seance bags, spirit wangas, skeleton keys, talismans, candles, voodoo dolls and lots more. You must be respectful when entering the shop, and photography is not allowed. Readings are also offered here every day from noon until closing.

Tomb of Marie Laveau St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, Crypt No. 3 Basin at St. Louis Street in Treme

Marked by a small plaque and several X’s, the voodoo symbol that’s part of a ritual for granting wishes, Marie Laveau’s grave is a large, white, above-ground tomb. Laveau was a hairdresser by trade but became the most famous voodoo priestess in the country during the nineteenth century. She sold charms, pouches of gris gris, told fortunes and was even said to save condemned prisoners from execution. She was also Catholic, attending mass daily at St. Louis Cathedral and mixing holy water and incense in her voodoo rites. She is believed to have died in 1881, although her daughter, named Marie, continued to practice voodoo, so details can get confusing. She was buried in the tomb of her family husband. Some dispute this to be her final resting place and say it is her daughter who is buried there, but it’s this gravesite that fans visit and leave all kinds of offerings. Tours of the cemetery are offered daily at 10 a.m. and also at 1 p.m. on weekends. Buy tickets here .

Update: In mid-December, Marie Laveau’s tomb was vandalized and painted pink. It’s believed the vandal wanted to paint over all the X’s, but the type of paint used was latex and doesn’t allow moisture to escape. Save Our Cemeteries is working on removing the paint and preservationists are also asking fans to refrain from marking the tomb with any more X’s. 

Musee Conti Historical Wax Museum 917 Rue Conti in the French Quarter

Learn more about New Orleans history and some of its legendary characters, including Madame Lalaurie and Marie Laveau, at this hidden gem. Only a block and a half from Bourbon Street, New Orleans’ wax museum has all the elements of a good ghost story: low lighting, chilly temperatures and even a hall of monsters. You’ll find Madame Lalaurie torturing her slaves and Marie Laveau dispensing potions not far from the Battle of New Orleans, and the museum also has a general depiction of voodoo complete with wild dancing and snakes. The museum is open Monday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., and admission is $8 for adults.

The Swamp aka where Misty Rocks Out to Fleetwood Mac 

We realize this is pretty broad, but since we’re not sure which swamp Misty is hanging out in while she blares Fleetwood Mac day and night, we thought we’d give visitors a few locations to choose from. There are swamps located just outside of New Orleans and then there is the Atchafalaya Basin , which stretches from Simmesport, Louisiana, to the Gulf of Mexico. A good starting point to explore the basin is around Lafayette, west of New Orleans, but there are also several excellent swamp tours not far from the city.

Honey Island Swamp 50 minutes from New Orleans is one of the least-altered river swamps in the country. Two-hour tours offered daily, year-round, are $23 for adults and $15 for children. An interesting tidbit from this tour is that before making “Song of the South,” the Disney folks toured Honey Island Swamp and used it as the model for the movie. Cajun Pride Swamp Tours are accessible only 25 miles from New Orleans and travel through the Manchac Swamp with native Cajun captains. A 1.5-hour tour is $19 if booked online ($13 for children) seven days a week, year-round. Highlights of this tour include a haunted graveyard and authentic Cajun cabin like the one Misty lives in.

There are lots of tours available in the Atchafalaya Basin , many that include paddling, airboats and even houseboats for rental, but we recommend McGee’s Atchafalaya Basin Swamp Tours . Three tours depart daily, and sunset cruises are also available. Cost is $20 for adults, $18 for seniors and $15 for children under 12.

Now that the show has ended, we are done live tweeting, but you can still follow @AynW for dispatches on life in New Orleans. 

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139 comments, nolahistorylady / october 15, 2013.

Um, this isn’t correct. The scenes in Madame Lalaurie’s house were not filmed in the actual Lalaurie mansion. I know because I had to sign a confidentiality agreement about where it was actually filmed. It was filmed in a French Quarter historic house museum, but not that one.

Erin Z. Bass / Author / October 16, 2013

We realize that and just want readers to know that the actual house exists and can be viewed from the street.

Me / October 16, 2013

It looked an awful lot like the inside of the Hermann-Grima House to me.

We’ll try to find out and will continue to update the location guide throughout the season.

Heberto Ledesma / October 16, 2021

Was the opening in the woods filmed in Hammond Louisiana?

Blaine M. / October 16, 2013

The exterior of madame LaLaurie’s home was the Gallier house on Royal. It’s two doors down from the real LaLaurie home.

Ames H. / October 17, 2013

The LaLaurie house is in fact the Gallier House Museum (you can see it two doors up -it has a distinct pale green ironwork. I worked there for 4 years as a docent. Interior shots are not of the museum, but the door and exterior are of the Gallier house. It was built and occupied by James Gallier a local architect and is restored to the 1850s period.

Marty / November 9, 2013

Seems pretty clear from the text in story.exterior was next door….did you read it? ______

Gallier House aka the exterior of Madame Lalaurie’s Mansion

Nan stops at the Lalaurie mansion during the witches walk. Exterior shots used in the show are the Gallier House, a mid 1850s building

Madame LaLurie / May 13, 2017

Ummmm…..you didn’t understand that by reading what was written??

Janelle Eveld / October 16, 2013

Great article! As a NOLA native, I was trying to place a few of those houses while watching last week. The story I always heard of Madame LaLaurie is she fled to the North Shore around the Covington/Mandeville area and continued to practice Voodoo. My cousins used to tell the stories to scare all of us walking through the woods up there when we were kids. The LaLaurie house has always given me the creeps. My cousins husband has been inside and said he couldn’t get out of there fast enough. Sure is beautiful though.

Thanks Janelle! We have more on the legend and whereabouts of Madame Lalaurie coming up later in the season, so stay tuned.

voodoo2no / October 16, 2013

I delivered some furniture at the La Laurie mansion when Nick Cage owned it and like Janelle’s husband, I could not get out of there quick enough. Weird experiences around that place.

Antonella / May 31, 2016

Hello voodoo2no,

Could you please elaborate on the weird experiences you had? Would love to hear more 🙂

Adam / October 16, 2013

Please note: the location of Marie Laveau’s grave is in dispute. The above is the Laveau-Glapion family grave, which tour groups pass off as Marie Laveau’s grave. The ‘x’ marks are considered vandalism by the Glapion family, which is alive and well in the area. If tourists want to visit a spot they believe is associated with Mme Laveau, that’s fine, but don’t spoil the moment by desecrating a family grave.

Teek / February 26, 2015

Look for caretaker Walter when visiting this cemetery. He will show you the actual tomb and also has a lot of colorful stories of other residents there

nolagirl / October 17, 2013

The frat house location you posted is incorrect. Those scenes were actually filmed at the Round Table Club House at 6330 St Charles Ave. I know this because I was an extra for these scenes, all of which were filmed here, both the indoor and outdoor shots.

Erin Z. Bass / Author / October 17, 2013

Thank you for letting us know. We’ll update the guide with the Round Table.

Witchyg / October 17, 2013

We will be visiting dec 6-7, anything witchy happening that we should not miss?

Erin Z. Bass / Author / October 18, 2013

The Hermann-Grima and Gallier houses, which stood in for Madame Lalaurie’s Mansion in episode 1, will be decked out for the holidays and offer tours.

SoapArtist / October 18, 2013

I love this article. Can’t wait to watch more of this season and will definitely come over to NOLA and visit each spot. I honestly didn’t realize that the “characters” in the show were real…at least a few of them.

Shelley / October 19, 2013

I thought I recognized the interiors of the Hermann Grimma house in Episode 1 and I’m pleased to know I was correct! Great list here !!

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Louisianais / october 24, 2013.

Re: the 9th Ward. There is some confusion outside New Orleans about the terms “Upper” and “Lower,” which really have nothing to do with elevation. The “Lower” 9th Ward is so called because it is *downriver* from the Industrial Canal. The “Upper” 9th Ward is *upriver* from the Industrial Canal. The same nomenclature is is used for the Upper and Lower Pontalba Buildings which flank Jackson Square.

For the record, to identify Homer Plessy as African-American is a complete misnomer and robs him of his linguistic and cultural identity. Plessy and others of the Comité des Citoyens were Créoles de Couleur (Creoles of Color), descendants of the group known prior to the Civil War as Gens de couleur Libres (Free People of Color). They spoke (and produced literature) in French and were Catholic. African-Americans are historically, culturally, linguistically, and ethnically a different group born from the African diaspora.

Treme / October 24, 2013

You missed Maison Vitry in Treme! Marie Laveau’s hair salon. http://www.MaisonVitry.com

Erin Z. Bass / Author / October 24, 2013

Thank you, we’ll add it!

Treme / October 26, 2013

Tereliz / october 24, 2013.

Technically the Crescent City Connection would take you BACK to the East Bank. It’s the MS River Bridge—the original bridge—that takes you to the West Bank.

meliwolf / October 28, 2013

I love this guide! Great job, I look forward to checking it out after every episode now:)

Toddius Zho / October 29, 2013

In s3e1, Bitchcraft, Nan sits on a fountain after abruptly leaving the Lalaurie tour. We are led to believe this is a courtyard of Lalaurie’s mansion after Fiona spies Nan through a window. Lalaurie herself is revealed to be buried beneath the brick floor. This is actually the courtyard of the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum at 514 Chartres St.

Erin Z. Bass / Author / October 29, 2013

Thanks for the tip! That’s a great little museum. We’ll have to add it.

David / October 30, 2013

Kyle’s home, wasn’t the stairs and door on the right hand side? I might be wrong.

Erin Z. Bass / Author / October 30, 2013

You’re correct, David. This isn’t a picture of his home, just an example of a shotgun.

GingerIsAConstruct / November 4, 2013

Some of the morgue scenes may have been shot at the hospital, but my husband teaches at International High School at 727 Carondolet street, and some of the morgue interiors were definitely the basement of the school, where they did some shooting a few months back.

Erin Z. Bass / Author / November 4, 2013

Thanks for letting us know!

Lee Howard / November 13, 2013

love this article, a very comprehensive look at American Horror Story: Coven haunts

Rene / November 16, 2013

On the way to Nola now. Convinced my husband to tag along. I’m ready walk the streets!

jules / November 20, 2013

So excited to be going back to NOLA in a couple weeks! I’ve made a “to do” list of new places to see this trip! LOVE AHS Coven this season and can’t wait to visit all these places!!! All I need is a black hat and some spike heels…

Fitchfalcon / November 23, 2013

In the episode “The Dead”, the New Orleans Trip Advisor regulars ID’d the bar that John, The Axeman, played in and was met by Fiona is the Victorian Lounge at the Columns Hotel. Also a sighting of Ted’s Frostop Diner at Calhoun and S. Claiborne.

Second posting…Several sightings by New Orleans Trip Advisor regulars from Ep 7,”The Dead”…

Bar where John, the Axeman, played his sax and was met by Fiona is the Victorian Lounge, in the Columns Hotel on St. Charles. Also a sighting of Ted’s Frostop Diner at Calhoun and S. Claiborne.

Bayouannie / November 24, 2013

In Ep. 7: Hell or High Water Tattoo Parlor at 2035 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA 70130

In Ep. 7: Hell or High Water Tattoo Parlor at 2035 Magazine St., NOLA … and the doll that Kyle looks at in the case is the “ZomBenet Ramsey”!

The guy on the end looks familiar doesn’t he?! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151129608295805&set=a.10150747696605805.387997.230670495804&type=1&theater

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Blackhart / november 27, 2013.

Just a bit of info about Popps fountain. It was once a meeting place for Mary Oneida Toups & her coven. They’d preform rituals there. She was considered the most powerful witch of New Orleans in the 20th century. Which earned her the title, the witch queen of New Orleans. That’s what Fiona meant when she said it was a holy place for their order, the story she told the girls was actually true.

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Hawkedd / december 7, 2013.

Only started watching the show because it was set in New Orleans. We are going to be back in our favorite city soon and will definitely revisit many of the places in the show.

concurrent / December 9, 2013

In episodes 3 & 8, the neighbors ( Joan & Luke Ramsey ) house is filmed at 1422 Jackson, which really is next door the the coven house. It is used for both the interior and exterior shots.

Lolo / December 12, 2013

Where were the hospital scenes filmed for the episode “The Head”??

Erin Z. Bass / Author / December 12, 2013

Not exactly sure where the hospital scenes are being filmed. They could be at the adolescent hospital, International High School or another location all together.

Rhett / December 23, 2013

I will be in NOLA on vacation Dec. 26-30th. What are the chances of there being some shooting dates around this time I could see, and where could I find out about these?

Erin Z. Bass / Author / December 23, 2013

Not sure how you could find out about this, Rhett. I would assume they’re off for the holiday and might not be around but could be wrong.

Hiya / January 9, 2014

My daughter loves the show and New Orleans !!! We can’t wait for Mardi Gras !!! I was wondering if I could bring her to watch any of the filming of American Horror Story? Thanks !!

Erin Z. Bass / Author / January 9, 2014

Filming is not open to the public, and from what I hear, they’re pretty secretive about when and where they are filming. But if you happen to be in NOLA this month before the show ends Jan. 29, there’s a chance you could see some of the stars around town.

Steph / January 12, 2014

The place where Fiona digs up Madame lalaurie is the courtyard of the pharmacy museum on charters st in the french quarter. It’s a cool museum. Only $5 to get in and lots of old, crazy, and slightly frightening medical stuff.

Julie / January 13, 2014

The jazz funeral was filmed in Lafayette cemetery #1 on Washington.

Erin Z. Bass / Author / January 13, 2014

Thank you, Julie. That’s what we thought but weren’t sure.

Emma / January 22, 2014

I liked this post about the interior of the coven mansion. So beautiful.

laurenelizabeth / January 22, 2014

le bon temps was missed. that was where madison and fiona played pool

Erin Z. Bass / Author / January 22, 2014

Thanks, we’ll add it!

gaj1967 / January 26, 2014

The “Chubbie’s Fried Chicken” that Queenie worked at is the real Chubbie’s Fried Chicken in Algiers.

http://www.chubbiesfriedchicken.com/

Erin Z. Bass / Author / January 26, 2014

Thanks for the heads up! We’ll add it.

Milo / January 30, 2014

Where was the burning at the stakes filmed? In tonight’s finale.

clooby / January 31, 2014

I’m curious too. Looks like a gravel pit.

Erin Z. Bass / Author / January 31, 2014

Not sure and couldn’t identify the site the first time they burned Myrtle either. Anybody have an idea?

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Madame Lalaurie is buried in St. Louis cemetery. She died in Paris and was brought back to NOLA. Her grave is clearly marked just as you enter and to the right. It can be seen from the gate.

pixiwitch / May 29, 2014

Which one? 1,2,or3

eleela / March 23, 2014

I went to almost all of these places!!!

Mel789 / June 9, 2014

Visiting 6th-8th July this year! Can’t wait to check these sites out!!! Thanks for a great guide!!! Will be checking back closer to the date for any updates on Freak Show locations!

ahslover / October 14, 2014

Do you know where was filmed that scene when Fiona is using drogs and the music is loud, she is dancing, in the first episode of season three? because the interior is stunning

Erin Z. Bass / Author / October 16, 2014

I don’t but will try to find out.

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American Horror Story and New Orleans’ Infamous Buckner Mansion

For fans of the paranormal across the world, New Orleans holds a great deal of interest and mystery. Cultural influences from Africa, Native America, Spain, and the Caribbean mix with a little Voodoo magic to make a fascinating cultural melting pot – and the Big Easy has become the star of songs and hit TV shows alike. One such show is American Horror Story – broadcast on the cable television channel FX in the United States, then internationally on the Fox Networks Group.

‘Coven’, series 3 of American Horror Story

Entitled ‘Coven’, series 3 of American Horror Story hit screens back in 2013, and follows a coven of witches descended from Salem as they fight for survival, with flashbacks to the Salem witch trials of 1692. The season won a total of 17 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Miniseries. The performances garnered nominations for a number of the actors at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards, with two big wins for the show. 'Coven’ was also nominated Best Miniseries or TV Film at the Golden Globe Awards.

The Infamous Buckner Mansion, New Orleans

The series was set in an old house in New Orleans’ Garden District, fictionally named Miss Robichaux's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies. That old house was none other than the Buckner Mansion, which features on  American Ghost Walks’ Garden District Ghost Walk in New Orleans .

The Buckner Mansion was constructed in 1856 as the grand home of wealthy cotton baron and slave-owner Henry Sullivan Buckner, who wanted a grander and more opulent residence than his ex-business partner and bitter rival, Frederick Stanton. The mansion was designed by architect Lewis E. Reynolds, who also designed the nearby Carrollton Courthouse.

The Buckner Mansion is an excellent example of Greek Revival architecture, featuring a two-story portico with six Ionic columns and a pedimented gable. The mansion originally had 35 rooms (including three ballrooms!) and was surrounded by a large garden and a stable. It was a business school from 1920 until the early 80s, but in 2010, the Buckner Mansion was purchased by a private owner who restored the building to its former glory. Today, the mansion is used as a rental and event space, and it is a popular location for weddings and you could even rent it for yourself on your next New Orleans trip.

Is the Buckner Mansion Haunted?

Miss Josephine was a former slave of the Buckners back when they built the property, and when the Civil War came to an end, she remained with the Buckner family – fulfilling the roles of governess and midwife. Her restless spirit is widely believed to haunt the building today.

Visitors to the Buckner Mansion have reported the sound of sweeping out on the front porch or throughout the house, even though the space was empty. The citric smell of lemon peel is said to hang on the breeze around the mansion - supposedly one of Miss Josephine’s favorite scents – and some people have ever reported seeing her apparition along the mansion’s elegant staircase.

Light switches flickering with nobody around, chandeliers swaying from the ceilings on days with no breeze, and doors creaking open untouched all point to a paranormal presence at the Buckner Mansion – and many do believe the historic old house to be haunted.

The True Story Behind Delphine LaLaurie

We can't talk of the Buckner Mansion and its role in American Horror Story without mentioning a certain Delphine LaLaurie, played in the series by Oscar-winner Kathy Bates. Delphine LaLaurie may have been a fictional character, but the person she was based on – of the same name – was very much real.

The truth of it is, Delphine LaLaurie was a serial killer in New Orleans in the 19th-century. She became notorious for brutally torturing her slaves, far surpassing the cruelties permitted at the time within the Code Noir (which defined the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire).

LaLaurie became known throughout New Orleans and beyond for binding, enslaving, and murdering people of color in her attic. Her connections to witchcraft in American Horror Story may be fictional, but her brutality as one of New Orleans’ most prolific serial killers is very much a reality.

To read more on the history and mystery of the Big Easy, check out our blog on  the Haunted History of New Orleans  and make sure to check out our Garden District tour to see the mansion for yourself!

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The New Orleans Mansion from “American Horror Story: Coven”

On the FX series “ American Horror Story: Coven, ” this grand old house is known as “Miss Robichaux’s Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies” (aka witches ).

In real life, it’s a three-story, 20,000-square-foot landmark in New Orleans from the 1850s called Buckner Mansion.

Let’s take a look at both the real and onscreen versions…

Miss Robichaux’s Academy on “American Horror Story: Coven”

The exteriors were filmed at Buckner Mansion, but the interiors were created on an 8,000-sq-ft soundstage.

Front Hall:

Ryan Murphy says, “Last year was so dark and grim and hard and I loved it, but this year was designed to be more, I think, fun. I wanted this year to be more light.”

That’s the idea that dictated how the rooms should look.

Set decorator Ellen Brill says, “You can really see blood on white!”

Production Designer Mark Worthington says:

We knew we wanted the rooms to be light in tone.

So we came down to New Orleans and the idea was to find an old antebellum mansion in the Garden District, a Greco-Roman revival, which starts from a base of being lighter.

I started pulling research (of) interiors that had a lot of white walls, white floor, lighter tones with darker furniture, creating contrast.

They built a working staircase with a real second floor for the “Coven” sets.

Upstairs hallway with the girls’ bedrooms:

Not sure I’d want to eat any food served off that “kitchen island.” 😉

Sarah Paulson plays Cordelia, Headmistress of Miss Robichaux’s Academy, who’s a master at potion work. She tries to guide young witches Zoe (Taissa Farmiga), Madison (Emma Roberts), Queenie (Gabourey Sidibe), and Nan (Jamie Brewer).

Jessica Lange plays Fiona Goode, the Coven’s “Supreme,” who is the head of the Coven. Definitely not someone you want to cross!

The Real Buckner Mansion: 1410 Jackson Ave in New Orleans

The real house is in the historic Garden District of New Orleans and was built in 1856 by cotton magnate Henry S. Buckner.

Buckner Mansion used to be a school, too, although it wasn’t for witches. From 1923-1983 it was the site of Soulé Business College.

The mansion is now a private residence you can rent for special occasions.

The VRBO.com listing says:

It is 1853. Cotton is King, New Orleans is the center of the universe, and you are Henry Sullivan Buckner. You commission renowned architect Lewis E. Reynolds to build the most beautiful and magnificent mansion in the very heart of New Orleans’ Garden District. The result is one of the finest examples of Southern antebellum architecture, having a scale of elegance from the 19th Century that is rarely found.

The mansion has over 20,000 square feet, 48 Ionic and Corinthian fluted cypress columns, endless verandas, ornate cast-iron, and floor to ceiling windows.

Set designer Mark Worthington didn’t think the real house would work for the show because the proportions were “a little odd” with “long and narrow and tall” rooms for filming.

Instead of filming on location, the sets were built on a soundstage.

For more photos and information about Buckner Mansion and the “Coven” sets:

• Rental Listing
• See Cool Set Stills in Designer Ellen Brill’s portfolio
• Filming Location Guide
• More Photos at E! Online
• See old photos and interior photos at Soule College
• FX’s AHS page
• The Sets from American Horror Story: Murder House

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9.8.15 at 8:28 am

What a gorgeous old home (building?) I love what they did with the sets. I thought it was a real interior! Interesting that the set designer thought the rooms too long and narrow to film in. I’ve lived in narrow. Those rooms, IMO, are not narrow. 🙂 Very cool, that they rent the real location out for events. What a beautiful spot for a wedding!

9.8.15 at 8:31 am

I know, right? I guess they need more space than normal to film in, but I thought the same thing, Alie! 🙂

9.8.15 at 12:45 pm

Love that you covered this former ‘Coven’ mansion in New Orleans! We live about 20 minutes away from this place and never get tired of the area. So much inspiration to draw from when we renovate our own homes.

9.8.15 at 1:41 pm

Thanks for the link, Miss Amy! 🙂

9.8.15 at 2:22 pm

dearest julia, you’re the best! i love the american horror story series , i loved the murder house in the 1st season but the coven house is way more superior; it’s not even scary, it’s just chic! and as always you found the best pictures; i’ve been looking for pictures many times and found a lot a screen shots but no good images like yours. So thanks again for your fantastic work, keep looking for more amazing dream houses. xoxo

9.8.15 at 2:24 pm

Thanks, Cecile! Always nice to hear from you! 🙂

9.8.15 at 4:33 pm

Wow – What a house. I love that they did the sets so different than what you’d expect – so light and bright. Perfect contrast to the subject matter. Give me ‘contrast’ anytime. I remember when the movie “Practical Magic” came out, Traditional Home did a story on how they very purposefully made the sets look lighter and cleaner than what you might expect. They could have gone very dark and dusty there too but wanted to avoid that to provide surprise and (again) contrast.

9.8.15 at 4:46 pm

Kim, I absolutely loved the sets/locations they used for Practical Magic! The home, town and little shop was a perfect surprise for that kind of storyline. I swear sometimes I watch older movies just to gush over the beautiful places behind the performance. I could watch What Lies Beneath over and over for that gorgeous lake house alone! Was beyond bummed years ago to discover here on Julia’s blog it wasn’t a real residence.

9.8.15 at 9:46 pm

Thanks for the fun post! And great timing – I just checked into a hotel in the French Quarter for a two-day business meeting, and plan on heading out to the Garden District the day after tomorrow. I’m excited at the prospect of seeing one of your posted houses in person! Loved the first two seasons of American Horror Story, and then didn’t have time for it once I got sucked down the HBO rabbit hole of one addictive series after another. The house looks amazing. That triple parlor is impressive! And the soundstage interiors are incredible as well – the carved reliefs in the “plaster” are gorgeous! What fun it must be to design those stage sets.

9.9.15 at 12:59 am

Great job on this post, Julia. I seem to recall suggesting in a previous comment that this would be a good one for you. I really enjoyed the Coven season and the sets on that show. That has to be about the most elaborate house interior set I ever seen made just for a TV series. They made great use of locations around New Orleans as well. I’m looking forward to seeing what they come up with for Lady Gaga this season.

9.9.15 at 8:26 am

I recognized the Garden District mansion immediately! I actually attended Soule College in 1978! We used to sit outside under the oaks to eat our lunch. Loved seeing the interior since it has returned to a private residence. I also work in the area so it’s on my route. Great post! Thank you.

9.9.15 at 8:27 am

You did? Wow! How fun that you went to school there, Mary. 🙂

9.9.15 at 9:04 am

Julia, The house is a beautiful step back in time. The production sets are beleavable as interiors. The triple arches with columns remind me of the white parlor at Nottaway Plantation in White Castle LA on the Mississippi River. I stayed overnight 30+ years ago. That would be another house to do a story on.

9.9.15 at 12:30 pm

I like the set interior more than the house “now” interior. I like all that white and normally I do not like white on white…but it just seems to fit the entire home. Looking forward to Hotel this season. I have been an avid fan, a somewhat disappointed fan during seasons 3 and 4…I have high hopes for season 5!

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W hen American Horror Story chose New Orleans as the setting for the 3rd season, they decided to go balls-out Southern Gothic, from slave-torturing immortal bitches to a coven of misfit belles trying to control their powers and wanton desires. Here are all the major filming locations for American Horror Story: Coven.

Buckner Mansion

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Miss Robicheaux’s Academy aka Buckner Mansion is located in the Garden District of New Orleans. It was built in 1856 by a major cotton magnate and served for many years as a prominent business school. The mansion is now privately owned... but you can rent it out for a mere $20,000.

Round Table Club

The fraternity house (Tau Omega Alpha) where Emma Roberts is taken advantage of and quickly delivers some badass vengeance is actually Round Table Clubhouse across from Tulane University. The building has been a clubhouse since 1919 for members interested in literature, art and science. Today, you can rent it out for weddings.

Lalaurie Haunted Mansion

The notorious, real-life Lalaurie Mansion is featured as Madame Lalaurie’s House of Horrors in the show. It’s a major stop on any French Quarter ghost tour. According to legend, one night in 1834, a fire broke out at the house and when rescuers entered the home they found the mutilated remains of slaves who were imprisoned in the attic... and one who was chained to a kitchen stove. A mob ransacked the mansion and Madame Lalaurie presumably fled the city and was never seen nor heard from again. Over the years the building has served as a barber shop, furniture store, girls school, and a music conservatory. Nicolas Cage even owned the home, until he had to give it up to pay back taxes.

Gallier House

The Gallier House served as the exterior for shots of Madame Lalaurie’s Mansion. This is where Nan hears Madame while on the witches walk. The house was built in the 1850s and is a National Historical Landmark. You can visit it today on a public tour.

Hermann-Grima House

The interior shots of Madame Lalaurie’s mansion were filmed here at the Hermann-Grima House. The 1831-era home is now a historic house museum and is open for tours.

New Orleans Adolescent Hospital

This pre-Civil War plantation was the filming location for the New Orleans Adolescent hospital, where Kyle is brought back to life. The site served as a Marine hospital, a public health clinic and an adolescent hospital over the years. However, recently it has deteriorated and is home to many feral cats. It’s soon to be reopened as a children’s hospital, though!

Atchafalaya Restaurant

Atchafalaya Restaurant is the joint where Fiona and Madison have brunch. It’s a gorgeous building with a fantastic reputation for classic New Orleans dishes. Try the duck hash or eggs Treme. Oh, there’s also a make-your-own Bloody Mary bar.

Maison Vitry

Maison Vitry served as the filming location for Marie Laveau’s Cornrow City Salon where Fiona visits for her immortality spell and Cordelia seeks out help with her fertility issues. It’s a gorgeous house in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans. It was built in 1855 by a free African-American woman. It is available to rent for $350/night, with a minimum 3-night stay, or you could book a tour.

Crescent City Connection

The Crescent City Connection is the bridge where Zoe drives Kyle to the swamp and gets a surprise visit from Misty Day in the backseat. It has also been featured in the film Deja Vu and the HBO series Treme. The Crescent City Connection crosses over the Mississippi River, and connects the east and west banks of New Orleans. However, don’t think crossing this bridge will take you directly to the bayou... you’re actually heading straight into strip-mall purgatory.

Cure is the hip bar is where Fiona goes to have a well-deserved martini. With artisanal cocktails and no sign outside, it’s obvious that this is a New Orleans hotspot. Try the White White cocktail next time you’re in the neighborhood.

BONUS: Royal Street

After Madame Lalaurie runs away from the coven in Episode 2, Fiona finds her sitting on the sidewalk along historic Royal Street. She must have felt right at home amongst the antique stores that line this avenue. Royal Street is parallel to Bourbon Street and is quite a posh area of NOLA.

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Filming Locations For American Horror Story Coven In New Orleans

Here’s my guide to the filming locations in New Orleans for the third season of American Horror Story’s scare anthology, Coven. Witchiness is at its zenith in Coven.

The FX show travels back to sultry and spooky New Orleans in 1834. Coven’s female cast is absolutely star studded with actresses Jessica Lange, Katherine Bates, Angela Bassett, and Emma Roberts.

With the usual AHS dose of lurid and shameless camp, Coven is creepy, occasionally hilarious, and reliably terrifying.

It’s an entertaining twist on classic horror, with iconic one-liners and Emmy award-winning performances. Coven is a delicious guilty pleasure.

American Horror Story Coven: Show Overview

American Horror Story is an award winning anthology series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. The show’s themes are lurid, focused on the gritty underbelly of society.

AHS features recurring cast members, set in insane asylums or possessed by demons. You want to come back, season after season, to see what evil befalls them next.

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The third season, Coven, fully embraces American Horror Story’s devotion to camp with witches, zombies, and gore. This season focuses on a tight-knit coven, and their all-powerful leader, grandiosely dubbed “The Supreme.” The Supreme is Fiona Goode, played by the uber talented Jessica Lange.

The show focuses on four young witches in the coven: Nan, Queenie, Zoe, and Madison. Emma Roberts ably portrays the feisty Madison, a down on her luck movie star.

The witches are taught how to use their witching skills by Fiona’s daughter and school headmistress Cordelia Foxx, who’s a potions expert. They face off against the voodoo clan and their powerful queen, Marie Laveau. She’s portrayed by Angela Bassett.

Oscar winning actress Kathy Bates makes her AHS debut as Madame Delphine Lalaurie. She was a horrific torturer of slaves in1800s New Orleans. After Delphine tortures her lover, the Voodoo Queen casts a revenge spell. Delphine is condemned to live forever buried in an unmarked grave

.Coven’s young witches in training are always in danger. They face witch hunters and zombies, as well as backstabbing and treachery from those within their own coven.

The Supreme, Fiona, is plagued by a pesky cancer. A replacement Supreme is needed. Season 3 culminates in the “Test of the Seven Wonders,” to decide who will be the new Supreme in Fiona’s wake. Misty, Madison, Queenie, and Zoe participate in the test, with Cordelia and Myrtle Snow overseeing the procedures.

Some of the tests include telekinesis, mind control, and even traveling to one’s own personal hell and back. Misty is trapped in hell and can’t escape. Zoe dies during teleportation.

Neither Queenie nor Madison can resurrect her. Enter the quiet and underestimated Cordelia. She handily resurrects Zoe, inheriting her mother’s mantle.

When Did Everyone Become a Witch?

Coven is an incredibly popular show. Why is this?

There’s a certain cultural fascination with witches, which no doubt accounts for Coven’s TV success. I’m not talking about the “burning at the stakes” era of witches. I’m talking about today’s witches.

The US witch population has risen astronomically. In a culture obsessed with spirituality and mysticism, more women than ever are identifying as witches.

What accounts for this new witch aesthetic? Why have all these witches come out of the proverbial broom closet? “Witch” is a squishy term, that encompasses all sorts of witchiness and bitchcraft.

The one defining element is that a witch is viewed as a powerful woman. In a world in chaos, where one might feel powerless, being a witch provides a measure of autonomy. So, the same way that women declared themselves “nasty,” they now declare themselves “witches.”

Coven taps into this longing for power and dominance. It casts witches as feminists and virtually eliminates men from the cast. In Coven, men are basically irrelevant or cast as villains. The women “don’t need a man to protect” them from evil.

You can’t watch Coven and not want to be a witch. Besides, who wouldn’t want to a Jessica Lange type Supreme, uttering lines like “You were a sloppy little witch bitch.” and “Don’t make me drop a house on you.” Power is intoxicating.

American Horror Story: Coven Filming Locations

In season 3, Coven travels back in time to sultry and spooky 1834 New Orleans.

To capture the zeitgeist of Coven, the filming locations were carefully chosen. They feature some of new Orlean’s most historic mansions, haunted places, and cultural hotspots.

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Let’s take a spellbinding tour of the Coven filming locations:

1. Buckner Mansion, Miss Robicheaux’s Academy

Buckner Mansion is a luxurious New Orleans landmark, located in the Garden District. It was built in 1856 by cotton magnate Henry S. Buckner.

It’s around the corner from the famous Brevard mansion, formerly owned by Ann Rice, a horror novelist extraordinaire. Currently, the mansion is privately owned, with prominent “no loitering” signs on display.

In Coven, Buckner Mansion has the starring role and is used in many scenes. The mansion doubles as the fictitious Miss Robicheaux’s Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies, a boarding school for young wayward witches.

Because the interior has narrow rooms, sets for the Robicheaux interior were built on a soundstage. The theme is stark black and white. The school is shown as elegant, airy, and almost chilling. It’s very anti-Hogwarts.

This is where Cordelia, Zoe, Madison, Queenie, and Nan live. They hide their powers from the world, while honing their magical skills. You’ll see many exterior shots of this house, accompanied by the famous “Lala Song.”

The property is surrounded by a massive black iron gate. Zoe is accidentally speared by it during the Test of the Seven Wonders (before she’s brought back to life).

Where to find Buckner Mansion : 1410 Jackson Ave New Orleans

2. Lalaurie Mansion

Lalaurie Mansion is a grand old house in the French Quarter of New Orleans. It’s particularly fitting as a Coven filming location because it’s known as the “haunted house.” It’s a popular stop on New Orleans ghost tours.

Madame Delphine Lalaurie was very much a real person. She became infamous as the “Cruel Mistress of the Haunted House.” After her third marriage, she moved into the manse in 1831. But she was difficult, and her third husband fled her dastardly clutches.

Most heinously, Madame Lalaurie tortured her slaves. When a fire broke out in 1834, the tortured slaves, held in chains, were revealed. Rumors circulated that her slaves were experimented on and mutilated.

Madame Lalaurie escaped in the fray, possibly fleeing to France. 200 years later, there are still reports of paranormal activity in the house — mooing, phantom footsteps, negative energy.

Intrigued by its reputation, Actor Nicolas Cage purchased Lalaurie Mansion in 2009. Soon after, he was bankrupt and lost the house.

His career tanked. New Orleanians whispered that the curse of the Lalaurie Mansion caused Cage’s downward spiral.

American Horror Story’s Coven succeeds in making a reputedly haunted house even more creepy and notorious. In Coven, we’re shown grisly flashbacks of Delphine torturing her slaves and her own daughters.

Where to find Lalaurie Mansion : 1140 Royal Street in the French Quarter

3. Round Table Club, Tau Omega Alpha Fraternity

The Round Table Club is a handsome clubhouse on St. Charles Avenue, overlooking Audubon Park. This club was founded in 1898 by a group of professional and literary men, who subsequently purchased the house in 1919. To this day, the club hosts lectures and social gatherings.

In Coven, the Round Table Club doubles as the Tau Omega Alpha fraternity house. One of Coven’s grisliest events occurs there. Madison brings Zoe to a frat party, where Madison is brutally gang-raped by frat boys. The frat boys escape the scene in a bus, deleting all evidence of the crime from their phones.

In a state of shock, a rageful Medusa-like Madison uses her witchy powers to flip the bus over, killing her rapists. Only Zoe’s friend Kyle survives, after later being revived by Madison. He’s brought to the academy, but is effectively a zombie.

Where to find the Round Table Club: 6330 Saint Charles Ave

4. Gallier House, the Exterior of Madame Lalaurie’s Mansion

Gallier House was built in the1850s. It’s one of the best preserved historic homes in New Orleans and listed as a National Historical Landmark.

The house is operated as a museum alongside the Hermann-Grima House. You can visit it on a public tour.

In episode 2 of Coven, Fiona and Delphine sit outside the house, after Fiona releases her from her underground prison. Delphine discloses that the voodoo queen hung her family right above them and is disgusted at the historic landmark plaque on her house.

Where to find the Gallier House: 1132 Royal Street

5. Hermann-Grima House, the Interior of Madame Lalaurie’s Mansion

The Hermann-Grima House is a meticulously restored French Quarter home built in 1831. It was an early example of American architecture in the French Quarter. Inside its Federalist facade is an extant open-hearth kitchen, slave quarters, horse stables, and a courtyard. It’s owned and operated by The Woman’s Exchange.

In Coven, the house was used as the interior of Madame Lalaurie’s mansion. Fiona takes her young witches there. They learn about Delphine’s wicked history and see her chamber of horrors, where she tortured her slaves.

The final resting place of Madame Lalaurie is supposedly unknown. However, Nan senses where she’s buried, showing Fiona. Fiona removes the undead Delphine from the dirt.

Where to find the Hermann-Grima House : 820 St Louis Street

6. Maison Vitry

Dating from 1855, Maison Vitry is a Creole home in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans. Inside, there are 14 foot ceilings, ironwork, and original moldings. If you want to relive Coven up close and personal, it’s available for rent via Air Bnb.

In Coven, the elegantly decaying mansion appears as Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau’s Cornrow City Salon. The hair salon is her “cover” for her real mission in life: revenge through black magic.

Maison Vitry makes many appearances in the show. Fiona visits Marie Laveau, wondering about Marie’s secret to immortality. Marie immediately identifies her as a witch. The two discuss the feud between their kind. The voodoo queen reminds Fiona that the Salem witches got their power from the “voodoo slave girl,” Tituba, before unceremoniously kicking her out.

Cordelia also goes to Laveau’s salon in secret. She seeks help from the voodoo queen with her fertility problem. Laveau turns her down flat, refusing to perform the voodoo ritual based on the longstanding feud between witches and voodoo practitioners.

Where to find Maison Vitry : 501 Frenchmen Street

6. Popp Fountain

Built in 1937, Popp Fountain is a massive fountain in City Park. The fountain features underwater lighting and a 30 foot spray of water from a cast bronze sculpture of dolphins. Recently renovated, it’s often the site of cocktails parties and receptions.

Historically, Popp Fountain was a meeting place for witches. In the 20th century “white witch” Marie Oneida founded a coven, which was recognized as a church. Legend holds that she performed magical ceremonies at Popp Fountain, including “fountain of youth” tricks like extending peoples’ lives.

In Coven, Popp’s Fountain is mentioned at the end of the first episode, “Bitchcraft.” Fiona describes it as “a kind of holy place for our order” as she leads her coven through the French Quarter.

Address: 1 Palm Drive New Orleans

7. Vacherie Restaurant

Vacherie Restaurant is in the Hotel St. Marie, at the corner of Toulouse and Dauphine Streets. It serves up authentic cajun cuisine in the French Quarter. Here’s where you get your fried green tomato and shrimp remoulade poboy.

Fiona and the witches walk by this restaurant on their iconic stroll.

Address : 827 Toulouse Street

8. Cure Bar

Cure is a hipster bar on Feret Street. It’s one of New Orleans hottest bars, known for its innovative artisanal cocktails.

Cure is Fiona’s favorite watering hole. She’s seen sipping cocktails there in the beginning of Episodes 4 and 5. It’s the right part of the city for Fiona’s character, kind of hip and savvy.

Address : 4905 Freret St. Uptown

9. Royal Street

Royal Street is a posh and famous street in New Orleans. Royal Street runs parallel to Bourbon Street in the French Quarter.

It’s classic New Orleans — wrought iron balconies, colorful brick or stucco exteriors, and arched windows. It’s a great place to stroll and window shop.

In Episode 2, Madame Lalaurie runs away from the coven. Fiona finds her sitting on the sidewalk. They walk down the street in a closing scene.

10. Lafayette Cemetery

New Orlean’s Lafayette Cemetery is the site of a jazz funeral in Episode 10 of Coven.

Madison shows off her powers to Misty. She revivifies a man, hits Misty with a brick, and leaves Misty in the vacated coffin. Madison then dances through the cemetery with Misty’s Stevie Nicks shawl.

We see the cemetery again in the next episode during Nan’s funeral.

Address : 1427 Washington Ave

11. Chubbie’s Fried Chicken

Chubbie’s Fried Chicken was Queenie’s place of employment before the academy. In a fit of pique, Queenie used magic to hurt a rude customer.

In the Go To Hell episode, this is where Queenie is transported during the Test of the Seven Wonders. It’s her own personal hell.

12. Atchafalaya Restaurant

This restaurant serves up creative new Orleans food. If you want to leave the crowded French Quarter, this cottage-y restaurant is in the residential Irish Channel neighborhood and a bit of a hidden gem.

Fiona and Madison have cocktails there, boozing it up and playing pool. Later, back at the academy, Fiona tells Madison she’ll be the next Supreme.

Fiona hands her a knife, asking her to kill her, since cancer inevitably will. When Madison refuses, Fiona turns the knife on her, saying “This coven doesn’t need a new Supreme, it needs a new rug.”

Address: 901 Louisiana Ave

13. The Victorian Lounge at the Columns Hotel

This bar is known for its Queen Anne design, mahogany ceilings, and classic cocktails. 15 foot high ceilings give it a feeling of grandeur. This is where Fiona meets the Axeman in Episode 6, The Axeman Cometh .

The Axeman was based on a real serial killer. Active in New Orleans from 1918-19, he attacked his victims with an axe.

He was taken down by the Coven’s witches of the previous century, but his spirit lingered. When he attempts to murder Cordelia, incantations release him from his spirit and give him a physical presence.

The Axeman appears in the show as an undead homicidal ghost obsessed with Fiona. Ravaged by cancer, Fiona wants to have “just one more great love affair.” The axe man it is. In the final episode, as punishment for plotting to kill the next Supreme, Fiona is condemned to live with the Axeman in his farmhouse heaven for all eternity.

Address : 3811 St Charles Ave

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LaLaurie Mansion: A Real American Horror Story

The history of the lalaurie mansion.

New Orleans is a city famous for its ghosts and a breeding ground for the paranormal. Even to the extent that real estate put on its market must be listed as haunted or non-haunted. One of the French Quarter’s prime pieces of haunted property sits at 1140 Royal Street, known as the LaLaurie Mansion.

The wretched past and tortured souls trapped within the LaLaurie Mansion are what makes the property so fascinating and so haunted. One woman known as ‘Mad’ Madame Delphine LaLaurie is responsible for much of the building’s reputation.

Delphine LaLaurie was born into vast wealth and political power in 1787. Her horrific legend starts after meeting her third husband, Leonard Louis Nicolas LaLaurie, a French expat and doctor. The couple moved into their Royal Street mansion in 1831, where they were known for throwing lavish social functions for their well-to-do friends.

Soon, rumors begun to spread about LaLaurie in the social circuit. Neighbors and house visitors suspected that the slaves of the LaLaurie mansion were being mistreated. These rumors peaked in 1833 when a neighbor witnessed Madame LaLaurie chasing a young slave girl named Leia with a whip. Terrified and wanting to escape the cruel punishment, Leia jumped from an upper story of the house to her death in the courtyard. In an attempt to cover up the poor girl’s death, LaLaurie buried the body in the yard of the property.

This abuse was reported and an investigation into the household ensued. LaLaurie was charged with cruelty and as a result lost many of her slaves. In an unfortunate loop hole, the same slaves were quickly reacquired by LaLaurie, being purchased for her by family members.

It wasn’t until 1834 that the LaLaurie mistreatment of slaves resurfaced into the spotlight of the New Orleans public. On the 10th of April a 70 year old woman chained to a stove decided to take her fate into her own hands. She purposely started a fire out of fear that she would be taken to the top floor of the building, from where no one ever returned. The fire raged to engulf much of the house and in turn exposed the torturous condition slaves were kept.

Authorities responded to extinguish the fire and were left disgusted by what they found behind the crumbling walls. Once the fire was put out medical personnel were called upon to remove slaves that were dead, deformed and clinging to life within an apparent torture chamber.

Performing sick medical experiments on her slaves had been a past time for LaLaurie. Although the descriptions of what was found within the torture chamber vary and their legitimacy has been questioned. It is commonly reported the horrors within included removed skin, broken bones set into peculiar positions, amputated limbs, exposed brain being stirred with a stick and even someone unfortunate enough to have their lips sewn together trapping animal feces in their mouth.

Onlooking spectators became both disgusted and enraged at the horrors revealed within the house. Records tell of a large crowd that gathered outside the fire ruined house awaiting Delphine LaLaurie’s justice. That never came as she was able to escape in a horse and carriage towards the docks, never to be seen again. The angry crowd then stormed the property, destroying and stealing anything within.

After sitting in decay and disrepair for the next few years, renovations were finally undertaken to restore the home. Disturbingly, human skeletal remains were uncovered by workers both in the yard and under floor boards in the home, believed to be former slaves of Madame LaLaurie. Consequently, many tortured souls are believed to be trapped within the home.

The gruesome history and story of the LaLaurie mansion lives on in modern day culture. The story is reinforced to the many tourists passing through New Orleans, as the home is a favorite stop on ghost tours. The story has also been adapted for television, famously portrayed within American Horror Story: Coven. Ensuring the evil past of the home is kept in the minds of future generations.

The Ghosts of the LaLaurie Mansion

Knowing the past this building has seen, its not hard to imagine what kind of spooks still reside within its walls. The mansion has been the subject of numerous ghost stories since LaLaurie fled.

Even whilst the building lied vacant following its destruction from the fire, paranormal activity was writhe within. Passers by would comment on the wails and agonized screams coming from within the dark building’s empty interior. There were even reports of spectral beings appearing and disappearing on the iron lined balconies.

Years passed and renovations allowed visitors and new residents back into the home. Not all were welcomed and most didn’t stay long. Terrifying encounters with agitated spirits have been numerous. These include being attacked by a naked man bound in chains, encountering a spirit wrapped in heavy layers of cloth and waking to find a dark figure of a woman standing over a baby’s crib. On top of this, phantom footsteps, cries, moans and screams have been frequently reported as well as the invisible presence of a being that leads to feelings of unease.

The mansion has served other purposes during its life, each with their own ghostly stories to tell. At one point the building was host to a girls only primary school. Teachers became concerned that Madame LaLaurie’s ghost was haunting the dwelling after students were being attacked by an invisible entity. These young girls sustained bruises and marks that were similar to those from a whip, which the Madame had purportedly used on her slaves during life. A brief stint as a furniture store was to further confirm paranormal occurrences. The business didn’t last long after their stock was damaged by what can only be explained as unknown forces.

More death was to occur within the LaLaurie mansion, adding weight to the suspicions of something evil within the house. In 1894 a man living in one of the homes converted apartments was murdered. Investigators were told by his neighbors that the man had claimed to have a demon within his room that wished to see him dead.

Visiting the LaLaurie Mansion

There’s plenty of reasons listed here to believe that the LaLaurie mansion is haunted and so this location should be on the bucket list of any paranormal lover.

Unfortunately, the home is a private residence and not open to the public in anyway. That is no deterrent to the many hoards of people surrounding the mansion’s footpaths at any time of the day and night hoping to catch a glimpse of something spooky.

The building is poised perfectly on the corner of Nichols and Royal Streets for photos. It is accessible by foot traffic or those with a car and easy to get to from anywhere within the French Quarter. I visited during the day to snap a few photos and returned later at night whilst on a guided ghost tour with Ghost City , which I thoroughly enjoyed. I recommend visiting with a tour guide. They’ll give a comprehensive over view of the building, its past residents and are very knowledgable when it comes to questions.

Still game to visit? You can do so at 1140 Royal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.

If you enjoyed this article and want to find other haunted places in New Orleans, I recommend checking out the very haunted Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop .

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11 ‘American Horror Story’ Filming Locales You Can Actually Visit

S ure, there are plenty of haunted houses, haunted hotels , haunted used car lots, and other haunted places to visit for a scare around Halloween. But how many of them were used as filming locations in the creepiest television show ever to air on basic cable? Location scouts for American Horror Story are some of the best in the business, creating settings for the show that unnerve the audience as much as the talented actors and bizarre plotlines. Over seven seasons, this show has scared us in mental asylums, girls’ schools, mansions, and farm-to-table restaurants. Here are 11 sites you can visit and take selfies in front of this Halloween.

1. Briarcliff Asylum

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Address: Orange County Courthouse, 211 W Santa Ana Blvd, Santa Ana, California Season: Two, Asylum

The Massachusetts mental hospital that served as the central point for Asylum (plus a cameo in Freak Show ) is actually the classic Orange County Courthouse in Santa Ana. The Romanesque Revival structure dates back to 1901 and still serves at the seat of OC county government. If you’re down to travel and want to see something creepier, the inspirations for the Briarcliff Asylum were actually the Danvers State Hospital in Massachusetts and the Willowbrook State School in New York.

2. Delphine LaLaurie’s House

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Address: LaLaurie Mansion, 1140 Royal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana Season: Three, Coven

Of all the twisted, haunted legends of New Orleans , Delphine LaLaurie’s might be the most disturbing. During the early 1800s, she kept slaves in tiny, confined spaces, torturing, mutilating, and murdering them for her own psychotic entertainment. The atrocities were discovered during a fire at the mansion, where slaves were found trapped in the attic, chained to stoves and dismembered in various ways. Kathy Bates — who does deranged old lady better than anyone — brought a fictionalized version of LaLaurie to life, and though no episodes were filmed inside, the exterior is still a popular tourist stop.

3. Mott Manor

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Address: Longue Vue House & Gardens, 7 Bamboo Road, New Orleans, Louisiana Season: Four, Freak Show

The aristocratic mansion of Glorian and Dandy Mott that was the setting for Freak Show is set in Florida. But the actual structure used for exterior shots is a grand home and gardens in the heart of New Orleans, called Longue Vue House & Gardens . The house took three years to build, completed in 1942, and has 20 rooms and four lush gardens, including one that still grows food. But don’t expect the inside to look anything like the bizarre mansion you saw on TV; a tour of Longue Vue displays a house full of the original furniture, mostly English and American antiques with European carpets.

4. Miss Robichaux’s Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies

Address: Buckner Mansion, 1410 Jackson Ave., New Orleans, Louisiana Season: Three, Coven

Some people just can’t stop working, even when they’re dead. Such is the case with Miss Josephine, the ghost who haunts Buckner Mansion, a plantation-style home in the New Orleans’ Garden District that served as Miss Robichaux’s Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies in Coven . Miss Josephine, a former slave in the house, has allegedly been spotted sweeping floors and standing on the stairs, leaving a mysterious lemon-fresh scent wherever she traipses. Despite the ghosts, the mansion was occupied by its original owners — the Buckner Family — until 1923 when it was taken over by the Soule Business School, which closed in 1983. If you’re not afraid of ghosts, you can rent the historic mansion out for $4,700 a night.

5. Hotel Cortez

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Address: James Oviatt Building, 617 S. Olive Street, Los Angeles, California Season: Five, Hotel

The Hotel Cortez was almost entirely filmed on a soundstage, which makes visiting the swanky Art Deco-inspired murder hotel impossible. The exterior of the hotel was filmed at the James Oviatt Building, an Art Deco highrise in downtown Los Angeles. But that really isn’t the location you should be visiting. Though nothing was filmed there, the infamous Hotel Cecil (now known as Stay on Main, also in downtown Los Angeles) actually inspired the events of Hotel . Originally a swanky, 1920s LA hotspot, this hotel turned into a flophouse after the depression and has seen its fair share of suicides, murders, and mysterious deaths.

Night Stalker Richard Ramirez used the hotel as a home base during his serial killing spree, often dropping his bloody clothes in the dumpster outside the back entrance. Most recently in 2013, Canadian student Elisa Lam went missing. When guests complained of low water pressure and strange-tasting water, investigators went to examine the hotel’s water tank and found Lam floating inside. Elevator camera footage later showed Lam pressing every button on the elevator, then crouching in a corner, before furiously gesturing to someone outside. Her case has never been solved.

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Address: Ft. Raleigh National Historic Site, 1401 National Park Drive, Manteo, North Carolina Season: Six, Roanoke

The dual-track theme of My Roanoke Nightmare was set in a house constructed for the express purpose of filming the show, somewhere in a forest near Santa Clarita. But the site of the original lost colony of Roanoke is the Ft. Raleigh National Historic Site on the coast of North Carolina, where John White returned after a two-year supply run to find the entire colony vanished. His only clue to its disappearance: the word CROATOAN scrawled on a tree. AHS used the story as the inspiration for a season of historical fiction, where current residents grapple with ghosts from the past.

7. The Butchery on Main

Address: Corner of Chapman Street and Glassell Ave., Orange County, California Season: Seven, Cult

Funny that the place where poor Roger the sous-chef found himself hanging from a meat hook in Cult is actually a cosmetology school in Orange County. But such is the magic of Hollywood. The historic brick structure in Old Towne Orange was used as the exterior for Ally and Ivy’s restaurant, and during filming, it drew regular crowds to sometimes-sleepy Orange. It has no real haunted history nor ghostly lore and was most recently home to a cosmetology school, but it’s still a scenic location to snap a picture in front of.

8. Ally and Ivy’s House

Address: 1530 N. Orange Grove Ave., Los Angeles, California Season: Seven, Cult

Had Ally and Ivy been commuting in real life instead of simply cruising the streets of Brookfield Heights, the drive from LA to Orange would have killed them long before the sinister clowns could. The house used for the exteriors of their home in Cult sits about 40 miles up Interstate 5 or about three hours in traffic if you hit rush hour on a Friday. The maddening traffic might be why this neighborhood seems to house so many crazies: This house, as well as the one across the street, was also used in the filming of John Carpenter’s Halloween .

9. The Murder House

Address: Alfred Rosenheim Mansion. 1110 Westchester Place, Los Angeles, California Season: One, Murder House

To see where it all began, head to the Alfred Rosenheim mansion — the setting of the notorious Murder House from AHS ’s first season. Originally designed in 1902 by the eponymous architect as his private home along billionaires’ row in Los Angeles , it later belonged to actor Edward Everett Horton in the 1930s before turning into a convent in the latter part of the 20th century. It’s adorned in Tiffany stained glass, has six fireplaces, a solarium, and a gold-leafed ceiling. American Horror Story scouts weren’t the first to appreciate this mansion’s creepy façade, either; it’s also been used to film episodes of The X-Files , Buffy the Vampire Slayer , and other paranormal classics. The house is privately owned, but you can still see the creepy exterior.

10. Sepulveda Dam

Address: Sepulveda Dam, 15758 Burbank Blvd, Van Nuys, CA 91406 Season: Eight, Apocalypse

Apocalypse is considered to be a crossover between the first and third seasons of AHS, with many of those seasons’ stars returning for the eighth installment. One of the season’s most memorable scenes took place at Sepulveda Dam, where Cordelia and the coven condemn Ariel, Baldwin, and Miriam for murdering a fellow warlock and conspiring to commit treason against the coven. They do this by burning the traitors at the stake, though Cordelia honors the tradition where a witch will not kill a condemned warlock — it’s instead a resurrected John Henry that pours gasoline over the three. The dam has been used as a filming location for a number of things, most notably Iron Man 2. While the top of the dam is inaccessible, the basin underneath is open to visitors.

11. Camp Redwood

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Address: Franklin Canyon Park, 2600 Franklin Canyon Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 Season: Nine, 1984

A version of this article was previously published on October 8, 2018, and was updated on August 13, 2020, with more information.

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An infamous mansion might be familiar to many people who watch "American Horror Story."

The 9,062-square-foot mansion is currently listed for $4.5 million in the Lower Garden District.

The Buckner Mansion was featured in "Coven," series 3 of "American Horror Story," and was the location for Robichaux's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies.

The mansion was built in 1856 for Henry Sullivan Buckner and is one of the largest 19th-century homes in New Orleans.

The Buckner Mansion includes 7 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, a dining room, two living rooms, a study and a kitchen.

The house is located at 1410 Jackson Ave. and the listing can be found on Zillow .

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‘The Iron Claw,’ ‘American Horror Story’ Prove Potential For Louisiana-Set Projects

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What do Cannes competition films “Kinds of Kindness,” “American Horror Story,” “The Iron Claw,” “Hit Man” and “Pitch Perfect” have in common? These are just a smattering of the projects that have utilized Louisiana’s production resources over the decades thanks to the state’s robust incentive program.

In the early 1990s, the state recognized the power of Hollywood and started luring productions to the South with all it had to offer. The program was revitalized in 2002 and continues to grow, encompassing everything from pre- to post-production. 

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Pryor points out, too, that the incentive for filming outside of New Orleans kicks in when working in the capital city of Baton Rouge, just over an hour away. It doesn’t take much to save more.

“If you really want to approach the industry, top to bottom, as an economic plan, you have to plan to get productions in, and then that’s got to go well. You need the infrastructure and people,” says Pryor, adding “a lot of that rests in training.”

Since 1972, the nonprofit New Orleans Video Access Center, colloquially known as NOVAC, has educated and trained students for work within the entertainment industry. “There’s opportunity up and down the age bracket,” Pryor notes, whether it’s a traditional-aged student coming into the program, or a beautician transferring 20 years of more conventional livelihood into industry-specific hair and makeup.

Chris Stelly, executive group director of Louisiana Entertainment and Digital Media, says the benefits for productions are more than budgetary, noting the importance of the state’s state-of-the-art soundstages, skilled workforce and state-wide infrastructure. “When you throw in ‘the everything else,’ our success is built on the ‘everything else,’” he says.

Once productions move outside of Hollywood, they have a slew of cast and crew who suddenly need housing. Stephanie Clarke runs Luxe Spaces, a company that caters to Baton Rouge and New Orleans as a one-stop shop for housing at all price points.

Clarke notes that a newer high-end apartment complex in the vibrant Baton Rouge downtown area has been really popular with productions, and with a recent dip in rental fees there are even greater savings opportunities now.  

It’s not all work, though. “We’re really in line with other cities as far as our downtown areas being great,” says Clarke. “When you finally get home from a long day’s shoot [you don’t] have to get back in your rental car. There are a whole lot of opportunities in downtown Baton Rouge to live, play, work, shop and dine all within walking distance.”

Beyond the vibrancy of areas like downtown Baton Rouge, production scouting teams may have other questions that need to be addressed. 

“Someone asked me if they need to do alligator safety training with their crew,” Pryor chuckles. “No, you’re filming in downtown Baton Rouge; alligators aren’t just going to walk up to you.”

Dispelling stereotypes about the state is a mission. In addition to the expected swamps and moss, there’s also historic architecture, beautiful universities and diverse landscapes. Filming in winter looks like summer elsewhere, and the state can also work for winter wonderland scenes thanks to creative crew skills.

Beyond the budgetary benefits and after-work perks come concrete production needs for infrastructure in terms of stages and crew, production and post. That means ensuring there are multiple soundstages throughout the area, as well as established post-production houses, like the Louisiana branch of Crafty Apes.

The Ranch Film Studios, located just outside of New Orleans in Chalmette, was founded not only with an eye on current production needs, but educating and training for the future as well.

Jason Waggenspack, co-founder and CEO of the Ranch Film Studios, also serves as president of Film Louisiana, a nonprofit political advocacy organization that strives to help secure policy and procedure and keep the film industry bankrolled.

Film Louisiana is “all about the sustainability of the industry in the state,” he says. For example, ensuring a percentage of the tax credit dollars go into training a Louisiana-based workforce.  While Film Louisiana doesn’t host any trainings, they help direct the funds to organizations that do, including NOVAC.  

He adds that Film Louisiana should be credited for many things, including converting tax credit dollars to training dollars for crew, and also a five-year certification for scripted, episodic television that replaced a season-by-season certification.

To date, the state can pinpoint one billion benefits to the program — $1 billion, that is, spent at local businesses. That doesn’t include an additional $2.1 billion in tourism that can be credited directly back to in-state production work. A recent study by the Louisiana lieutenant governor’s office indicated nearly half of the state’s tourists were inspired to visit based on a film or television show.

As one of the top states in the country for production, and with the longest-running incentive program in the U.S., Louisiana’s legislators clearly know what works. 

In addition to being first with incentives, the state was also the first to bring the various domestic film commissions together. Pryor co-founded Film USA, a trade organization meant to unify the commissions with a shared vision and outlook for national production.

“The U.S. is really the only production-heavy country in the world that doesn’t have a federal film office,” says Pryor. “This is a cause near and dear to my heart. I lecture at [Louisiana State University] about the power of storytelling in the world and what it does as far as economic and cultural power. As a country, we’ve held this position and invested so long in the industry that we need to pay attention to this industry because the global market is changing.”

For Louisiana, a state long at the forefront of film and television production, that means continuing to build upon previous successes in crew training and infrastructure in order to better fulfill the needs of an ever-growing American export. 

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