Beauregard-Keyes House and Garden

Had a wonderful time taking the tour of the house. The tour guide was very knowledgable and friendly. With only 4 other people on the tour, it was a real treat!
Tours are done on the hour and last about 45 minutes!

Really enjoyed the Tour here. They’re open Mon — Sat until 3pm and was able to catch the last tour on Saturday at 3pm on our first day in town. Probably had about 15 people on our tour and didn’t feel rushed or crowded at all.
Tour lasts a good hour and takes you through the full main house, servants quarters, and allows you access into the private garden. Guides were extremely friend and down to earth with a lot of historical information about the families that lived there, the history of New Orleans during that time, and information on all the furniture and items found throughout the house.
The last owner was the famous author Frances Keyes. She restored the property over approx. 20 years, and eventually renovated the former servants quarters behind the house into her personal residence when she could no longer climb the stairs.
The restored plaster work and detail found in the main house was like nothing I’ve seen before. Each room has intricate molded plaster leaves or fans around the ceiling and are a delight to see. The rooms feel wide and spacious with 14′ ceilings and wonderful possessions donated by the Keyes family and former owners.
Garden was beautiful as well with intricate box hedges and a fountain. Passersby on the street stopped many a time to peek in through the side gates so felt special to have access to the inside!
Quick Tip:
— Price is very reasonable at $ 10pp, however I found out about this through a voucher on Living Social — 2 people for $ 10.
— Don’t be surprised when you show up for the tour that you’ll need to wait outside on the porch. They’ll open the door at the next tour time and you’re off! All funds are collected at the end of the tour.

Great tour! we went Monday morning at 10:00 AM with a Groupon. Very interesting and beautiful house with a lot of history attached to it.
Our guide was very helpful and happy to answer any questions we had during the tour.
Don’t miss the beautiful garden at the end of the tour!

This house is fabulous, as was our tour guide, Ira. His wealth of knowledge about this fascinating piece of history was unreal. I had no idea this place even existed until yesterday, and now I know tons! We really enjoyed our time here. Also, if you can afford it, it’s a spectacular event venue as well!

This historic house is very close to Jackson Square, so it’s a great place to visit if you’re in New Orleans on vacation and especially if you don’t have a car. I love preserved houses like this, and it was a quick 45-​minute tour for just a few dollars (we had a Groupon), so it was really worth it. It’s always interesting to see how people lived «back in the day,» and the house had a few different people living there, so we got to peek into the lives of a Confederate General and a successful author. Wonderful tour guide, too!

Large and interesting home with a colorful past. Guided tour. Our guide was a little gruff and direct but not rude. Just a personality thing. He let us in late and did the first part of the tour for us on the next hour. Sadly, we were only two of four people total within that two hour space. But that made it better for us. It’s worth the ten bucks.

Nice little tour.
The house is bigger than it appears.
The tour guide made the tour, he was very knowledgeable and pleasant.
Learned a lot about the city and the house.

Great visit especially after getting a ½ off deal thanks to groupon. Better tour and more hands on than Oak Alley plantation tours. Knowledgable guides and funny, too! Get a free book upon entering. Beautiful courtyard and a great place for any writer to visit!

This is a nice, low key tour of a period home with tons of antiques, a little history, and a story about local author Frances Keyes who spent many years restoring the home. The beautiful hand carved moldings and architecture of the building is reason enough to visit.

This was a great tour and we were so glad that we went. Our tour guide was really friendly and very knowledgeable about the house, art and people who had lived there. It was really great that we were able to take pictures of anything we wanted and were even able to play the beautiful piano in the house. We were also given a book that was written by Frances Keyes, who lived there. After the tour we were able to spend as much time as we wanted in the really pretty garden on the side of the house.

Took a nice tour using a 2 for 1 Groupon. It’s about an hour tour with no reservations needed. Takes place at the top of the hour every hour.
Our tour guide, Ott, was very friendly and knowledgable. I believe he said he has been doing this for 20+ years. There was only four of us on the tour so it was low key.
I honestly had no idea of the house’s history, just saw the groupon and had never toured the house and thought it was a nice 1 hour diversion.
Got a lesson on who Confederate General Beauregard was and who Mrs. Keyes, an author of signficace, was. It was a nice bit of history. And FYI, it is pronounced like «eyes» with a K, so rhymes with ‘skies’.

Nothing personal, I much prefer the Hermann-​Grima house much more. It’s a larger home, with the detached kitchen, and the tour covers lots of history of life in the French Quarter. The Beauregard-​Keyes house did have a very nice, informative tour guide. You are offered a book to take home written by Frances Parkinson Keyes, which I thought was really great. I wish I had researched some of it’s history of being haunted before I visited. There is only one floor, rooms out back, and a gated garden. Right across from the Ursaline convent if you’re interested in killing two birds.

Great tour and they don’t cry if you happen to touch the furniture. We’ve been on the tour twice. I wish they would allow the tour to go upstairs.

A really lovely, old historic house museum in the French Quarter. We enjoyed the tour and the guide staff, who were very thorough in their description of the house. The gardens were impressive and well-​kept and you could sense the price of its docents when they spoke about the home’s history.
The focused mainly on the Mrs. Keyes story here — her writing, dolls, and life. Hardly any mention on the Beauregard story. If you have time and a free afternoon, I’d recommend it if you are interested in historic houses.

This is the house that General Beauregard rented and eventually purchased after the War of Northern Agression (some people refer to it as the «Civil War»).
I dunno, the place is kind of cool, but I was bummed to find out it wasn’t like the «Beauregard Family Estate» or anything like that. I was expecting it to be of more signifficance to his life since they’re putting his name on the monicher.
For those of you who don’t know, General Beauregard was the third top General in the Confederacy, and a feisty little guy (he was short). The other thing you have to love him for is… HE FIXED THE LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY! Many people call this his «shame» but man, anybody who could fix a lottery over a hundred years ago is a stud!
The house itself is pretty run down. They charge you $ 5 for the walk through tour, and it’s cool to learn how people really lived in New Orleans before the time of air conditioning, they just need to raise a pot of money and at least repaint the joint.
If you want to take a moment away from drinking, then I reccomend this as a nice mellow stop while in the Big Easy.