Country Club

Faubourg Marigny & Bywater


From the front, it’s a well-decorated Bywater house. Walk inside and there’s a restaurant, sauna, leafy patio with bar, heated outdoor pool, 25ft projector screen and a hot tub. There’s a $10 towel rental fee if you want to hang out in the pool area, which is a popular carousing spot for the gay and lesbian community (all sexualities welcome).


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Nearby Faubourg Marigny & Bywater attractions

1. Markey Park

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This small green space has a playground. It's a popular spot for Bywater families, and a good place to let younger kids run off some energy, especially…

2. Crescent Park

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This waterfront park is our favorite spot in the city for taking in the Mississippi. Enter over the enormous arch at Piety and Chartres Sts, or at the…

3. Clouet Gardens

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This formerly empty lot has been transformed by its Bywater neighbors into a neat little park filled with murals and generally appealing weirdness…

4. Plessy v Ferguson Plaque

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This plaque marks the site where Homer Plessy, in a carefully orchestrated act of civil disobedience, tried to board a whites-only train car. That action…

5. Press Street Gardens

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The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts runs this plot of land as part of its culinary education program. You'll find wandering chickens, placid goats…

6. Ninth Ward Victory Arch

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Walk down Burgundy street in Bywater and, seemingly out of nowhere, an Arc de Triomphe–style monument stands next to a high school football field. Oddly…

7. St Vincent de Paul Cemetery

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As New Orleans cemeteries go, this one feels completely off the tourist radar. And yet, it's as atmospheric and gloomy as any other 'city of the dead.' Be…

8. Algiers Folk Art Zone

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Self taught artist Charles Gillam is a regular at Jazz Fest, where he exhibits woodcarvings and mixed media work that is fairly bursting with New Orleans…