Bishop's_City_Hotel
City Hotel (New Orleans)
Historic structure (1832–1888)
The City Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, was one of the city's major antebellum hotels, but maybe not quite so storied as the older, larger, St. Louis and St. Charles Hotels.[1] As explained by a city historian in 1922, the "social life of New Orleans revolved around its great hotels to a degree greater than was the case, probably, in other American city."[1] As was the case with the St. Charles and the St. Louis, slave auctions were held at the City Hotel before the American Civil War.[2][3]