1870 Banana Courtyard French Quarter

Hexagon Room Jr. suite
STUNNING (guests say it's like a movie set), spacious 6-sided room, oversized "Gone With the Wind" private bathroom, wardrobe trunk used while filming movie, +old fashioned tub w/shower.

NAUGHTY, naughty. In 1800s when house was bordello serving elite, this room was 1 of double parlours, where ladies of the evening reclined.

Antiques, chaise lounge +seating area, high ceilings, marble fireplace w/gas logs, ornate hand painted ceiling medallion, armoire entertainment unit, cable TV, phone, fridge, microwave.
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toll free USA +Canada, 800-842-4748. Alt. 504-947-4475
  • The rate for this room is $215 during the high season and $99 during the low season.
  • This room has a private bath with a bathtub and shower.
  • This room contains 1 twin bed, 1 king bed.
  • Maximum occupancy for this room is 3 (#-beds.)
Cannonball Room
STUNNING romantic ROOM. Sleep in Antebellum, hand-hewn bed given as wedding present to family in 1830. Over marble fireplace hangs huge, unusual Indian painting.

Naughty, naughty. When house was bordello serving city's elite in 1800s, room was 1 of the double parlours where ladies of the evening reclined.

Seating area, high ceilings, hardwood floors, ornate hand painted ceiling medallion, cable TV, phone, dressing table, private ensuite bathroom. In hall, microw., fridge.

Full description, photo's on web site: BANANACOURTYARD
Toll free USA +Canada, 800-842-4748. Alt. 504-947-4475
  • The rate for this room is $179 during the high season and $79 during the low season.
  • This room has a private bath with a shower.
  • This room contains 1 twin bed, 1 double bed.
  • Maximum occupancy for this room is 3 (# beds.)
Madames Steamboat Room
Romantic room, antique carved Queen size bed, fireplace, seating area. High ceilings, ceiling fans, cable TV, phone, fridge, dressing table.

Antique chamber pot (Nope. Not to use, it's just an accent piece). Submerge in clawfoot tub w/shower (private ensuite).

(Yesiree. There were a lots of bordellos in our city, in the late 1800s, when prostitution was legal. This room was the Madame's bedroom during that period.)

Full description, photo's on web site: BANANACOURTYARD
Toll free USA +Canada, 800-842-4748. Alt. 504-947-4475
  • The rate for this room is $199 during the high season and $79 during the low season.
  • This room has a private bath with a bathtub and shower.
  • This room contains 1 twin bed, 1 queen bed.
  • Maximum occupancy for this room is 3 (# beds.)
Carriage/Quilt Room
Antique carved full +single bed, dressing table, marble top chest, antique wedding-ring quilt +more displayed on wall. Return guests say, "Like being in Grandma's house". Cable TV, phone, ceiling fan. Private ensuite bathroom. In hall, microwave, fridge, coffee maker.

(Yesiree. There were a lots of bordellos in our city, in 1800s, when prostitution was legal. Then, this was the Madame's Boudoir.) Petite room (that's one of those fancy words for, "It ain't very big").

Full description, photo's on web site: BANANACOURTYARD
Toll free USA +Canada, 800-842-4748. Alt. 504-947-447
  • The rate for this room is $155 during the high season and $69 during the low season.
  • This room has a private bath with a shower.
  • This room contains 1 twin bed, 1 double bed.
  • Maximum occupancy for this room is 3 (# beds.)
Mardi Gras Room Jr. suite
Yep. Theme on this was easy, since everyone thinks of Mardi Gras when you say New Orleans or French Quarter. Table +chairs outside your door on entrance BALCONY overlooking courtyard.

cathedral ceilings, antique Queen size bed, seating area, sofabed for extra guest. Priv. ensuite bathrm.

ALL that "NEW FANGLED STUFF" (modern gadgets): heat +air conditioning, 'phone, ceiling fan, cable TV, radio, hair dryer, alarm clock, refrigerator, coffee machine, microwave, iron +board.

Full description, photo's on web site: BANANACOURTYARD
Toll free USA +Canada, 800-842-4748. Alt. 504-947-4475
  • The rate for this room is $199 during the high season and $89 during the low season.
  • This room has a private bath with a shower.
  • This room contains 1 double bed, 1 queen bed.
  • Maximum occupancy for this room is 3 (#-beds.)
Pirate's Attic
While you relax, this accommodation's decor helps you imagine the pirate, Jean Lafitte, &his exploits on Mississippi River. Lots of interesting things in nooks &crannies, beamed ceiling (Yesiree, original beams from 1870s +exposed brick chimney). Full size +twin bed. Cable TV, ceiling fan +phone. Petite room ('petite' is fancy word for small, but that's why rate is so low). Private ensuite bathroom, tub w/shower. In hall, microw., coffee m., fridge.

Full description on web site: BANANACOURTYARD
Call toll free USA +Canada, 800-842-4748. Alt. 504-947-4475
  • The rate for this room is $135 during the high season and $59 during the low season.
  • This room has a private bath with a bathtub and shower.
  • This room contains 1 twin bed, 1 double bed.
  • Maximum occupancy for this room is 3 (number of beds.)
Balcony Room deluxe suite
GREAT location, easy walk to everything +convention center. Room with 2 VIEWS: private BALCONETTE in bedroom overlooks French Quarter, table +chairs outside your room on entrance balcony overlooking courtyard. Great choice for HONEYMOON.

STUNNING, SPACIOUS, romantic. antique King size bed, seating area, cathedral ceiling, sofabed for extra guest. 'New fangled' stuff like electric FIREPLACE, kitchenette, ensuite private bathroom, whirlpool tub &shower, cable TV.

Full description, photo's on web site: BANANACOURTYARD
Toll free USA +Canada, 800-842-4748. Alt. 504-947-4475
  • The rate for this Suite is $229 during the high season and $120 during the low season.
  • This Suite has a private bath with a bathtub and shower.
  • This Suite contains 1 double bed, 1 king bed.
  • Maximum occupancy for this Suite is 4 (#-beds.)
Cajun Quarters Jr. suite
GREAT location, easy walk to everything in the French Quarter + convention center. Table +chairs outside your door on entrance BALCONY overlooking COURTYARD.

LAGNIAPPE (free extras):
Continental breakfast + concierge service (That's a fancy phrase some folks use to mean, "We're here to help you, free".)

Queen size bed, day bed for extra guest, private ensuite bathrm. 'New fangled stuff' like microwave, Cable TV, 'phone, fridge.
Full description, photo's on web site: BANANACOURTYARD
Toll free USA +Canada, 800-842-4748. Alt. 504-947-4475
  • The rate for this room is $179 during the high season and $79 during the low season.
  • This room has a private bath with a shower.
  • This room contains 1 twin bed, 1 queen bed.
  • Maximum occupancy for this room is 3 (#-beds.)
Plantation Townhouse/pool
LOOKING for OLDE French Quarter charm? This accommodation OOZES history. Perfect for those seeking seclusion or a romantic getaway. The swimming pool is in tropical courtyard. Lots of antiques +vintage furnishings, orientals, ceiling fans, hardwood floors. 1850s building recently renovated. Private entrance. TownHouse has 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, living room. PoolHouse has 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, living room. Wifi Internet. 6 blocks to French Quarter.

Full description, photo's on web site: BANANACOURTYARD
Toll free USA +Canada, 800-842-4748. Alt. 504-947-4475
  • The rate for this Apartment is $375 during the high season and $125 during the low season.
  • This Apartment has a private bath with a bathtub and shower.
  • This Apartment contains 1 double bed, 2 queen beds.
  • Maximum occupancy for this Apartment is 4 (# beds.)
our little cottage
Lots of folks travel on a budget, so this may be the perfect accommodation for you. It's a stunning open floor plan cottage furnished mostly with antiques, chocked full of delightful surprises, but you won't 'pay an arm & a leg' to rent it. Private entrance, seating area with Q. sofabed for extra guests, cozy antique breakfast table, ensuite bathroom. 'New fangled stuff' like microwave, coffee maker, 'fridge, & Internet.

web site: BANANACOURTYARD
Call toll free USA +some of Canada, 800-842-4748. Alt. # 504-947-4475
  • The rate for this room is $179 during the high season and $85 during the low season.
  • This room has a private bath with a bathtub and shower.
  • This room contains 2 queen beds.
  • Maximum occupancy for this room is 4 (# beds.)

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1870 Banana Courtyard French Quarter Bed and Breakfast
1870 Banana Courtyard French Quarter, New Orleans, LA - Inn
1870 Banana Courtyard French Quarter
1422 N. Rampart Street
French Quarter
New Orleans LA 70116
USA
Phone: +1-504-947-4475
Fax: +1-504-949-5689
Toll-free: +1-800-842-4748
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Mary Ramsey (aka the banana lady)
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Yep. Everyone asks about the dark "blob' around this photo. It's the door around the large, custom designed, stained glass window with a banana tree scene that echos the carpet's motif in our front hall and the huge banana tree mural painted on the wall in the dining room. Walk out into our tropical courtyard or on our verandah, and enjoy the shade under the REAL banana trees brought from Cuba in the late 50's, just before the revolution. Unless we have a rough Winter freeze, from April through December we can serve guests bananas from our trees.BALCONY ROOM: This Jr. suite is perfect for honeymoon or romantic weekend. Soaring cathedral ceiling, entrance BALCONY w/table &chairs overlooks tropical COURTYARD, private Balconette off bedroom overlooks French Quarter. Spacious room with sofabed in the seating area, an eclectic mix of antiques +"new fangled" stuff like an electric fireplace, whirlpool tub w/shower, kitchenette.
Cannonball Room: Many returning guests ask for this stunning room every time they come back (it was part of the double parlour when house was a BORDELLO to society's elite in late 1800s). Room OOZES history - hand-hewn bed was wedding present to our family in 1830 (we'll tell you the story behind the 1850s trundle bed underneath). Huge Indian Pichwais painting above marble mantel. Floor to ceiling windows and massive pocket doors, elaborately painted plaster medallion, sitting area. NOPE. You don't have to make a RUNNING JUMP to get into that high bed, 'cause we have a special wood step stool for y'all to use. All that 'new fangled' stuff like ceiling fan, Cable TV, phone, hair dryer, private ensuite bathroom with shower + there's also a powder room in the hall.Madame's Steamboat Room. Steeped in history, this was the madame's bedroom. Hardwood floors, antique carved bed, fireplace, +all that 'new fangled stuff' like hair dryer, ceiling fans, Cable TV, phone. There's even an antique chamber pot tucked in the corner (Nope. Not to use, just to remind you of a different era.) Ensuite private bathroom, old fashioned clawfoot tub with shower.
You never know what you'll see at Banana Courtyard or in the French Quarter!!!! Relaxed atmosphere, HIGH CEILINGS, lush tropical courtyard, hammock, porch swing on the verandah, HARDWOOD FLOORS. In the late 1800s, house was a BORDELLO serving society's elite. Earlier, it was home of a rival to VOODOO Queen Marie Laveau. All that +Chinese FENG SHUI, native craftsmen who were "Free men of Color," meld into an eclectic, interesting history of the house. Learn more when you stay with us."Eye candy," is what one guest called it. There is so much stuff to look at, you won't believe it possible. And this is just the beginning!
Yessiree. Folks say it's like walking into a movie set when they even see just a teeny part of the HEXAGON ROOM. In late 1800s, when house was a bordello, 'ladies of the evening’ reclined on chaise lounges, waiting for their ‘beaux’. (Yep, our place WAS a "high class" house of prostitution.) Stunningly decorated with gorgeous ANTIQUES, on cold Winter nights, warm your ‘tootsies’ near the gas logs &marble fireplace. Private, huge GWtW bathroom adjoins (old fashioned tub with shower)+ there's a powder room in hall. When you come to the BIG EASY you'll want to relax &sip on your favorite drink in our tropical courtyard. Kick back in a hammock, nap under the shade of a banana tree, brought from Cuba in 1959. OR, on the verandah, hop on the porch swing. After a long day sightseeing, take the opportunity to share adventures with other guests. OR, if you seek a more secluded, romantic weekend, ask about our junior suite with whirlpool tub +private balconette.Most of the year, our courtyard is kind of 'jungly' A nice place to sip on a cup of coffee in the morning after breakfast, or a glass of wine early evening before you hit the clubs.
Carriage/Quilt Room: In the late 1800s and early 1900s, prostitution was legal, so there were lots of houses with a 'checkered' past. MADAMEs that were wealthy enough, had a seperate 'boudoir' (That's a fancy word for dressing room). We've created a special environment in this accommodation with private bathroom, hardwood floors, antique bed, marble top chest, dressing table. Enjoy the handmade heirloom quilts on the wall.In case you're "into" history &architecture, ours is one of the 1st Creole side-hall cottages. In the late 1800s, house was a BORDELLO serving society's elite. Our interior architecture was influenced by the Chinese workmen +their practice of FENG SHUI (we'll tell you the story behind our staircase). "Free men of color" craftsmen helped create our bullseye friezes, elaborate, hand painted ceiling medallions, cypress millwork. HIGH CEILINGS, hardwood floors, Fleur de Lis fence, fish scale shingles, help you recall a bygone era. Don't let this picture make you think we're all "fancy" here. We offer a very laid back environment amidst a lot of the "fru fru" of the past. Guests say they've never seen so much "stuff."
In the 1920s, you could have followed the banana truck to Banana Courtyard. Now, you don't need a car, as it's a quick walk to everywhere in the French Quarter. When you get here, you'll find that the dining room and gallery seating area are the Winter heart of the B&B, Summer it's the COURTYARD, hammock, swing on verandah. Guests say, "I've never seen SO MUCH STUFF" - a banana mural, a sea turtle shell made into a light (don't blame us, done in '20s before they become an endangered species), a stuffed peacock (used in a movie set, so blame them). Elsewhere in the B&B: antique &vintage doll collection, art, lots of interesting "stuff" (collectibles, books, antique cameras, vintage Mah Jong set) +loads of information on the French Quarter. Ask us to share with you the story behind and TV short done on our "Painted Lady" tapestry. If you're VERY lucky, you might get a BALCONY room.I tried to upload the whole photo, but didn't work. Original photo was from dining room table looking up at chandelier with whirring ceiling fan blades on either side. Oh well. At least it's 1/2 interesting.
The Hexagon Room: Guests say, "It's like walking into a movie set." Antiques, art, sitting area, dressing table. This room was part of the double parlour when house was a BORDELLO to society's elite in late 1800s. Marble fireplace w/gas logs, hardwood floors, HIGH CEILINGS, floor to ceiling pocket doors elegantly draped with fabric. Huge GWtW bathroom with old fashioned bathtub adjoins.Yep. Our Continental breakfast is SERVED in the dining room -- we don't beleive in using paper plates and paper napkins. We try to make it an inviting place for guests to gather to exchange ideas about what they've done and seen, or just to get acquainted. Many a romance has blossomed in this historic room where the drinks were served and money collected in the BORDELLO days.
Sings aren't allowed on historic homes in N'Awlins, so this is what you'll see, instead, when you pull up to the B&B.Oops. Well we moved this bed to the Madame's Steamboat Room, and now the Hexagon Room has a King size bed, but this old photo gives you an idea of how stunning the pokcet doors are in the Hexagon Room.