LaLaurie Mansion (New Orleans, Louisiana)

 place with historical importance, haunted house / building

1140 Royal Street
New Orleans, LA 70116

www.atlasobscura.com/places/lalaurie-mansion

The three-story Creole mansion long has had a reputation for being haunted. Built in 1832 for Dr. Louis Lalaurie and his sadistic wife, Delphine, the mansion was known in its early years for having been the site of terrible cruelty toward slaves by the Lalaurie family, who fled and never were charged. Since that time, the French Empire mansion, which is not open to the public, has been considered to be the most famous haunted house in New Orleans, and the lore surrounding Mme. Lalaurie’s atrocities has become one of the most well-known of the scary stories emanating from the French Quarter. Read the wiki for all the gruesome details!

Actor Nicolas Cage purchased the mansion for $3,450,000 in 2007.