Eagle Saloon

Status: Closed

Parish: Orleans

Location: New Orleans

1900s Jazz Saloon near Black Storyville: West corner of S. Rampart & Perdido: From the New Orleans Jazz History Business District/Back o’ Town Walking Tour brochure: 401 S. Rampart Street: “This building housed Jake Itzkovich’s Eagle Loan Office until 1907. When he relocated, Frank Douroux opened his second tavern on the block in 1908 and named it after the loan office thus the Eagle Saloon. It was a hangout for a group of musicians that named themselves after the saloon the Eagle Band, which was Buddy BoldenÕs Band sans Bolden, who was at that time institutionalized. The third floor was the ballroom for the combined Odd Fellows/Masonic Lodge which had their lodge in an adjacent building at 1116 Perdido St. Buddy BoldenÕs, John Robichaux’s, and Bunk JohnsonÕs groups played for dances in the ballroom.”