<P> A third was "The Rising Sun", which advertised in several local newspapers in the 1860s, located on what is now the lake side of the 100 block of Decatur Street . In various advertisements it is described as a "Restaurant," a "Lager Beer Salon," and a "Coffee House ." At the time, New Orleans businesses listed as coffee houses often also sold alcoholic beverages . </P> <P> Dave Van Ronk claimed in his biography "The Mayor of MacDougal Street" that at one time when he was in New Orleans someone approached him with a number of old photos of the city from the turn of the century . Among them "was a picture of a forbidding stone doorway with a carving on the lintel of a stylized rising sun...It was the Orleans Parish women's prison ." </P> <P> Bizarre New Orleans, a guidebook on New Orleans, asserts that the real house was at 1614 Esplanade Avenue between 1862 and 1874 and was said to have been named after its madam, Marianne LeSoleil Levant, whose surname means "the rising sun" in French . </P> <P> Another guidebook, Offbeat New Orleans, asserts that the real House of the Rising Sun was at 826--830 St. Louis St. between 1862 and 1874, also purportedly named for Marianne LeSoleil Levant . The building still stands, and Eric Burdon, after visiting at the behest of the owner, said, "The house was talking to me ." </P>

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