New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, 514 Chartres Street

Louisiana, New Orleans · United States · Museum · Scare 3/5

This building from 1823 once housed the first licensed pharmacist in Louisiana, in a state that was the first in the country to require training of its pharmacists.

This building from 1823 once housed the first licensed pharmacist in Louisiana, in a state that was the first in the country to require training of its pharmacists. Today the house is a pharmacy museum, filled with old glass bottles, surgical instruments and remedies that were often more dangerous than the illness they were meant to cure.

Staff describe a figure in nineteenth century dress in the rear garden, sometimes called the doctor. The story is tied to a later owner who, according to walking tour legend, carried out experiments on enslaved women in the 1850s. Be honest that this claim lives on in the tourist accounts but lacks firm support in the archives, so treat it as legend. The real unease lives in the shelves around you: a time when medicine groped in the dark, when cure and torment were often the same thing, and when certain people were counted as test subjects rather than patients.

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New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, 514 Chartres Street has a scare factor of 3/5 according to Haunted Places’ verified ratings.

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New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, 514 Chartres Street is in Louisiana, New Orleans, United States.

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