The 11th Ward or Eleventh Ward is a division of the city of

New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans

Wards of New Orleans The city of New Orleans, in the U.S. state of Louisiana, is divided into 17 wards. Politically, the wards are used in voting in elections, subdivided into precincts. Under various previous city charters of the 19th century, aldermen and later ci ...

. New Orleans Districts and Wards The Ward was formerly part of the old Lafayette Faubourg annexed by New Orleans in the 1850s. It is part of

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Boundaries

The roughly wedge-shaped Ward stretches back from the

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. The lower boundary is First Street, across which is the 10th Ward, then Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (formerly Melpomene Avenue), across which is the 2nd Ward. The upper boundary is Toledano Street, across which is the 12th Ward. A large portion of this ward is in the Garden District.

Cityscape and landmarks

The Ward includes portions of the Irish Channel, Garden District, most of Faubourg Delassize, and a number of housing projects. Landmarks include Lafayette Cemetery,

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, and Thomy Lafon School. The majority of the

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are in the 11th Ward.

References

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