Hotel Peter and Paul, an Ash Hotel

Behind the brick facade of a former 1860s Catholic parish complex on Burgundy Street, Hotel Peter and Paul occupies a former church, rectory, school and convent joined into one property in the Marigny, six blocks from Frenchmen Street's music clubs and a fifteen-minute walk to the French Quarter's edge.

Rooms sit in the old school and convent buildings, keeping original pine floors, transoms and clawfoot tubs rather than uniform hotel fittings. The deconsecrated church now serves as a bar beneath its original vaulted ceiling.

The Marigny's residential streets suit travelers seeking New Orleans away from Bourbon Street crowds, with the St. Claude corridor's galleries a short walk north.