I heard a radio interview last year with Eric Burden of the Animals. Older 'Catters will remember the band had a hit with the song in the sixties, so making the song famous where it wasn't already well known. Burden said he'd been to New Orleans not so long ago and was introduced to a woman who lived in the actual HOTRS, which I think is now a hotel or a private residence. She took him to the house and told him they'd found evidence to indicate that this was the actual original house in the song. There were lots of brothels in N.O. in those days (when? I don't know!), apparently, and this was, she said, famous in its day. I can't remember what it was that made them believe it was the house; maybe we can e-mail Eric Burden for more details?

Steve