Preservation Hall

District

French Quarter — 726 St. [Peter](/npcs/peter/) Street

Type

Historic jazz venue — secondary Elysium site

Claimed By

Elysium (Malkavian and Toreador favored)

City

New Orleans

Function in Play

The older, more intimate Elysium compared to Jackson Square. No standing room — an actual performance space where traditional New Orleans jazz has been played since 1961. The Kindred who favor it are those for whom aesthetic continuity is the point: Toreador who insist on the old forms, and Malkavians who find the venue’s mix of antiquity and present-tense performance congenial.

Father Iago (Lazarus) reportedly holds court here during his periodic appearances in the city, though court is perhaps too formal a word for whatever happens when a 6th-generation Malkavian of medieval vintage settles into a corner and starts talking.

Physical Read

A narrow building on St. Peter — almost no interior decoration beyond the instruments and the musicians. Wood floors, bad sight lines from the door, heat in summer that the undead register differently than the living. The audience stands or sits on low benches. Cover charge at the door for mortals; Kindred know the alternate entrance.