interview with the vampire (Season 1)
Gallier House can be seen during season 1 of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire as the French Quarter townhouse shared by Lestat, Louis, and Claudia.
Gallier Gathering: Anne Rice’s Worldbuilding Through Archives and Architecture
american horror story: coven (Season 3)
Episode One of American Horror Story: Coven opens within Madame Lalaurie’s mansion in 1834. Later in the episode the witches tour the modern-day home-turned-museum. In reality the legendary Lalaurie Mansion is still a private home. The Hermann-Grima House stands in for the lavish interiors while our sister home, Gallier House, represents the exterior.
Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice
In an October 23rd, 2014 Facebook post Anne Rice said: “Feast of All Saints was my first historical novel, all about the well to do free people of color of ante-bellum New Orleans. These were mulattos, quadroons and octaroons, free, prosperous, talented who sought to survive as free people under racist laws in slavery days. The cast include the rich Lermontant family. It was the Hermann-Grima House in New Orleans that inspired Rudolph Lermontant's home in the novel…”
“I’ve toured the Gallier House many a time thinking, ah, this is where Louis and Lestat and Claudia live in my heart.”
Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice
Often cited as the inspiration for Lestat’s home in Interview With The Vampire, Anne Rice laid this rumor to rest in an October 23rd, 2014 Facebook post: “In Interview with the Vampire, Louis, Lestat and Claudia have a French Quarter townhouse with balconies off the front French windows. After the book was published, I found the Gallier House on Royal Street to be almost exactly what I had imagined, except for the balconies. I've toured the Gallier House many a time thinking, ah, this is where Louis and Lestat and Claudia live in my heart…”
Additionally you may have seen us in:
Banshee, Season 3 (2015) - Gallier House shop
Double Jeopardy (1999) – Hermann-Grima House courtyard
Angel Heart (1987) – Gallier House exterior
The Big Easy (1986) – Hermann-Grima House exterior
The Joy that Kills (1984) – throughout Gallier House
Hobson’s Choice (1983) – throughout Gallier House
Cat People (1982) – Gallier House exterior
Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses have also been the setting for high fashion photoshoots, including Stylist Magazine (UK), Vogue Ukraine, and Miu Miu.