Parisian Garden Room

Status: Closed

Parish: Orleans

Location: New Orleans

Black Storyville/Back ‘o Town jazz club loacted in the Pythian Temple building: 234 Loyola Ave. From the New Orleans Jazz History Business District/Back o’ Town Walking Tour brochure: “The imposing Pythian Temple Building, now with a modern overlay, housed the local black Knights of Pythias, representing an economic achievement for people of color in the city. It was designed in 1908 by Diboll, Owen, & Goldstein Architects, with offices on the first floor and the Temple Theater on the second and third floors. It had a fashionable roof garden, the Pythian Roof, which was later enclosed to form the Parisian Garden Room. Cornetist Manuel Perez played regularly in this room and it was later managed by composer, bandleader, publisher A. J. Piron.”