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The Foundry New Orleans

1 Mile from the Hotel Monteleone
333 Saint Joseph Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
(504) 586-1309
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Directions:
Head southwest on Royal St toward Iberville St | Turn left at Canal St | Turn right at Magazine St | Turn left at St Joseph St
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The Foundry is Bella Luna Catering’s special events venue located just one block from the Convention Center. Housed in a renovated 19th-century warehouse, the flexible space dazzles with its historic bricking and exposed wooden beams two feet thick that rise more than 14 feet from the concrete floor to the wooden ceiling beams. A warm and inviting atmosphere, this is a place with its very own personality, evoking the romance of the Mississippi River in the era of steamboats and horse-drawn wagons. It occupies the ground floor of of the warehouse with. Wooden columns,. Exposed brick, bearing the patina of many decades, form much of the corner building’s walls, one of them partly covered by a mural depicting a quaint French Quarter courtyard scene.

From elaborate cocktail receptions to delicious continental breakfasts to formal, seated five-course dinners, The Foundry will make your event unique and memorable.

A Brief History of The Foundry

The site of The Foundry dates back to 1719. Governor Bienville, one of the founders of this area, owned the land originally. He then sold the property to the Order of the Jesuits, who owned the property from 1726-1763. That year new owner Marie Saulier Depleiss bought the land for the construction of a plantation and outbuildings. The property, with its plantation structures had several owners until 1831 when Louise Poeyferre sold off lots on the land for the construction of small buildings.

1859-1881 lent the “Foundry” property to become a small brewery operated by the Fasacht Brothers. In 1881 new owners, the Maginnis family had the plantation house torn down for the erection of the first cotton mill on this site. It remained a cotton mill until 1894, when the property was sold to George Pratt for the construction of Citizen’s Bank. In 1947, the site became home to the first of several glass companies. The property was sold in 1985 to a machine manufacturing company. In 2001 the former plantation site became the new home of Bella Luna Catering, “The Foundry.”

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