The Keuffers Building and Old Slave Quarters
The Keuffers Building is located on the corner of Chartres and Toulouse Streets in New Orleans, Louisiana. The upper floors of this building have remained vacant for years, but the ground floor has been rented out by a number of businesses. The last business that occupied the ground floor was a routine pub in the French Quarter. However, like most of the businesses to open here, it closed shortly after it opened. In 2005, the building and the slave quarters behind it underwent a major renovation project. The apparition of a white female has been seen in the second-floor windows. The ghost has been known to stare outside at the traffic in the street as she moves the shudders on the windows.
The slave quarters that are located behind the building is a hot spot for paranormal activity, and it is pretty-much a sure stop for every ghost tour in the Crescent City. There is a sad tale that is told regarding several slave children who were held there during the yellow fever epidemic in 1853. People have reported seeing the faces of these children in the windows. Another ghost that is seen is that of a tall black man that paces the second and third floor balconies with a whip in his hand.
(Source: Dwyer, Jeff. Ghost Hunter’s Guide to New Orleans. 2007.)
This is quite interesting!!
First, the photo is of the former ISPR GHOST EXPEDITIONS(tm) office and courtyard (1995 – November 1, 1997), not Keuffer’s.
And the information on Keuffer’s above, are my words (just barely altered) as published in my original book, THE SELF GUIDED GHOST EXPEDITION OF NEW ORLEANS (1997) and my second, ISPR INVESTIGATES THE GHOSTS OF NEW ORLEANS (2000), all based on the actual parapsychological work conducted by veteran field parapsychologist, Dr. Larry Montz and the ISPR. I was in fact, part of the investigation team that worked on this property.
I was also the sole originator of the experimentation at the openings behind the slave quarter building.
The ’sad tale’ however, is a new addition to my words and there have been no reports of faces in the windows of the slave quarter.
I believe in a fair world, a copycat book should give credit to the source of information, especially when that information is based on the first-hand and hands-on work of another.