The Mary Beth

08/02/2025

310 S Rampart. TONIGHT! Come by 5-10 for an open house, drinks, DJ and meet some of our featured artists at the The Mary Beth Hotel 🙌🏻

07/28/2025

We’re opening our doors.
Join us at The Mary Beth Hotel for Fidelity Bank White Linen Night on August 2nd from 5-10 PM.

Our spaces will transform into a living gallery, filled with incredible work from local artists, community energy, and celebration.

Come see the art and meet the artists.
Featuring work by:

Penda Smith
Karisma Price
Jourdan Barnes
Jorge Maradiaga

The event is free & open to the public, but space is limited!
DM us to get the confirmation link and we’ll send it your way.

07/28/2025

We’re opening our doors. 🙌🏻
Join us at The Mary Beth Hotel for Fidelity Bank White Linen Night on August 2nd from 5–10 PM.

Our spaces will transform into a living gallery, filled with incredible work from local artists, community energy, and celebration.

Come see the art and meet the artists.

Featuring work by:

Penda Smith
Karisma Price
Jourdan Barnes
Jorge Maradiaga

The event is free & open to the public, but space is limited!

DM us to get the confirmation link and we’ll send it your way.

04/08/2025

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: What a gem. I’m so glad I got to stay here before this spot blows up and becomes impossible to book. The concept is amazing and aligns so vividly and authentically with the heartbeat of New Orleans. Pristine accommodation, original artwork and terrific location. Best part is you’re surrounded by “story” - and story / storytelling is what makes us human. The Mary Beth will amplify any trip to the crescent city.
Thanks for the hospitality,

02/08/2025

Super Bowl Ready.
✅

02/05/2025

“What if you could talk to ghosts”
About the work:
A bust of Mary Beth Fogarty made while pregnant with her youngest son, Robert X. Fogarty sits at the center of the piece. 40 years later, Robert acquired the bust from Mary Beth’s art dealer. Robert and his fabricators used writing through video projection and portal like layers as an offering to open a conversation with her.

She has not replied — yet.

About the artists:
Mary Beth Schmidt Fogarty (1943-2002) and Robert X. Fogarty (b. 1983) are the mother-and-son duo behind Son of a Ghost. Mary Beth died when Robert was 18 and she left behind more than 1,500 works, Her son, Robert Fogarty, founded the global storytelling project Dear World and co-developed the Mary Beth Hotel. He has spent over a decade exploring themes of love, grief, and nostalgia through his work. His ongoing collaboration with the ghost of Mary Beth has sparked conversation, intrigue and curiosity from all corners of the globe.

06/02/2024

05/14/2024

May 14.

I circle it on the calendar. 22 years ago, on or about May 14, Mary Beth decided she'd retire from this earthly life.

Tonight, The Mary Beth Hotel will be celebrated along with 9 other projects for excellence in historic preservation.

I look forward to what nexts May 14th holds. If you know me, you know it won't be left to chance :).

https://www.louisianalandmarks.org/news/2024/5/1/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2024-awards-for-excellence-in-historic-preservation

04/02/2024

Before and Afters!

History of The Buildings:

Since the 1860s these three buildings have served as horse stables and saloons, pawn shops and shoe stores, yes, even brothels.

The dark wood floors you see here? Reclaimed from the original building’s floor joints, this wood is an antique heart of pine.
The rings you see on our floors are from old growth wood milled more than 200 years ago and more than like from trees more than 500 years ago.

Finally, a March 31, 1893 New Orleans’ Times Picayune article states that buildings each sold $3,775! Fun fact, a historian told us that these buildings are so old they are found on the city’s old street grid and that’s why the used be named

The Neighborhood:
Did you know that a teenaged Louis Armstrong played his first trumpet for coins up and down our block? It’s widely considered the historic “Back of town,” New Orleans.

One block uptown is the historic Eagles Saloon, where Armstrong got his start.

About South Rampart Street, Armstrong said, “in that one block, more people were crowded than you ever saw in your life. There were church people, gamblers, hustlers, cheap pimps, thieves, prostitutes and lots of children.”

There are big plans to return the 300 and 400 blocks of S. Rampart to its Jazz roots in the next decade and to develop these two blocks into a Jazz corridor as it was during the turn of the 20th century.

04/02/2024