Louis Armstrong Park, named to honor New Orleans-born legendary jazz Icon, is a 32-acre urban park in the Tremé district of New Orleans, Louisiana, just adjacent to the world-renown French Quarter. The site was once known as 'Congo Square,' a place where enslaved people congregated to play music and socialize on their Sundays off work (read more: Code Noir of 1724). NOLA-born architect, Robin Riley, designed the park and it opened in 1980, just in time to host the 10th annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Although that festival is now hosted by the NOLA Fairgrounds, Louis Armstrong Park is now home to Jazz in the Park (a free Jazz concert series), the Treme Creole Gumbo Fest, and the Louisiana Cajun & Zydeco Festival. Insider the park are the New Orleans Municipal Auditorium, the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, and the site where NOLA's Shakespeare in the Park performances are held. At the park's center stands a 12-foot monument of the legend himself, Louis Armstrong.