The Real Vampire House Anne Rice Couldn’t Forget. This is the Gallier House located at 1132 Royal Street in the heart of the French Quarter, and it may look familiar to fans of Interview with the Vampire. While Anne Rice didn’t originally base Lestat, Louis, and Claudia’s home on this exact mansion, she later admitted it looked almost exactly like the one she had imagined while writing the book. In a 2014 post, she said she had passed this house for years, and once she saw it after the novel was