Freret | |
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 Freret Commercial Corridor, Overlooking Freret Festival | |
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| Coordinates: 29°56′15″N 90°06′25″W / 29.93750°N 90.10694°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Louisiana |
| City | New Orleans |
| Planning District | District 3, Uptown/Carrollton |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.19 sq mi (0.5 km2) |
| • Land | 0.19 sq mi (0.5 km2) |
| • Water | 0.00 sq mi (0.0 km2) |
| Elevation | 0 ft (0 m) |
| Population (2000) | |
| • Total | 2,446 |
| • Density | 13,000/sq mi (5,000/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code | 504 |
Freret is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. The Freret neighborhood contains a thriving commercial corridor. A subdistrict of the Uptown/Carrollton Area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission are: South Claiborne Avenue to the north, Napoleon Avenue to the east, LaSalle Street to the south and Jefferson Avenue to the west.[1] The name of the neighborhood stems from Freret Street, which was named for William Freret, a mid-19th-century New Orleans mayor.
- ^ "Freret Neighborhood". datacenterresearch.org.