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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Adjacent to Orleans Parish, Louisiana
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| On Morgan Street north of Bermuda Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Erected in 1896 To replace the Duverjé Plantation House which served as the courthouse from 1866 until it burned in the great Algiers Fire of 1895.Barthelmy Duverjé acquired title to the Plantation in 1805 and in 1842 the property was subdivided . . . — — Map (db m116882) HM |
| Near Morgan Street near Bouny Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Andre Seguin built the first dry dock in Algiers in 1819 on land purchased from Barthelemy Duverjé. As the City did not want ship building and repair businesses on their side of the river, those businesses blossomed along this side of the river, . . . — — Map (db m116923) HM |
| On Patterson Drive north of Chelsea Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Here on the Jourdan Plantation American Forces under General David Morgan defended the west side of the Mississippi River while General Andrew Jackson defended the east side on January 8, 1815. The War of 1812 ended with the American victory in . . . — — Map (db m116881) HM |
| On L B Landry Avenue at De Armas Street, on the right when traveling north on L B Landry Avenue. |
| | Lord Beaconsfield Landry, also known as L.B. Landry, was born March 11, 1879 in Donaldsonville, Louisiana. At a very early age, he was sent to Gilbert Academy, which was at that time located in Baldwin, LA. He later attended Fisk University, where . . . — — Map (db m116883) HM |
| Near Morgan Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Algiers Point evolved from the plantation of Barthelemy Duverjé. The Duverjé home was built c. 1812-16, and served as the Algiers Courthouse from 1866. It was destroyed by the Great Fire of Algiers in 1895 and replaced by the current structure in . . . — — Map (db m117057) HM |
| Near Morgan Street at Bouny Street. |
| | In the 1720s, at a spot of land now eroded by the river, stood the barracks where enslaved Africans from the Senegal-Gambia region, were held before being ferried across the river to the slave auctions. Early Algiers Point was also the home of the . . . — — Map (db m116900) HM |
| On Bouny Street north of Morgan Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Algiers, established in 1719, is the second oldest neighborhood in New Orleans. Originally called the "King's Plantation," it was first used as the location for the city's powder magazine, a holding area for the newly arrived African slaves, and . . . — — Map (db m116901) HM |
| On Bouny Street north of Morgan Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Louis Armstrong, adoringly referred to as “Satchmo," was born August 4, 1901, but chose to celebrate his birthday on July 4th,America's Independence Day. He was the first important jazz soloist and became its most influential musician. As a . . . — — Map (db m116892) HM |
| Near Patterson Street north of Thayer Street, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Located between Atlantic and Thayer Sts., established in 1853, the S.P.R.R. Yards extended back 22 blocks, at its peak employed 4,000 men. Trains would board a ferry to cross the river and continue their journey from the Pacific coast up the . . . — — Map (db m129503) HM |
| Near Patterson Road near Bermuda Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | In the early morning hours of October 20th, 1895, on the 300 block of Morgan St., near the corner of Bermuda St., a fire started that would eventually destroy about 200 homes and businesses in ten blocks between Morgan, Lavergne, Alix and Powder . . . — — Map (db m116888) HM |
| Near Patterson Street 0.2 miles south of Hendee Street. |
| | Although this land was purchased by the U.S. Government from Jean P. Dupiere in 1849 as a proposed Navy Yard, a U.S. Naval Station was not formally established here until 1901 when a dry dock arrived. More land was purchased from the Olivier, . . . — — Map (db m129683) HM |
| On Morgan Street west of Bermuda Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | The transatlantic slave trade to Louisiana began in 1718, with the first of two ships bringing African captives to the region in 1719. The first ship to arrive at this site was the Expedition, which landed 91 enslaved people, most from the . . . — — Map (db m157916) HM |
| Near Patterson Road near Thayer Styreet, on the left when traveling north. |
| | The sugar plantation (c.1800) of Furey Verret stretched along the river road from around Vallette St., to the Naval Station, and included the Verret Canal, where Whitney Avenue now stands. Jean Lafitte, the pirate, traveled on this canal between . . . — — Map (db m116886) HM |
| On Veterans Memorial Boulevard near Athania Parkway, in the median. |
| | A submarine built by Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co. of Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Funds for this boat were raised by the citizens of Caddo Parish Louisiana. Launched One August, 1943. On her second patrol under command of LCDR. James S. Clark, was sunk by . . . — — Map (db m133997) HM WM |
| | To the left, along the aisle, is a row of burial crypts which also served as the wall of the cemetery on Basin Street. Because of their arched shape they were commonly known as “oven” vaults.
Constructed probably in the middle of the . . . — — Map (db m51640) HM |
| On Magazine Street at Common Street, on the left when traveling south on Magazine Street. |
| | 114 Magazine Street stands on property donated by noted philanthropist Paul Tulane to Tulane University on June 30, 1882. This property was part of the donation by Mr. Tulane which created Tulane University in 1882.
114 Magazine was designed . . . — — Map (db m102526) HM |
| On Bellaire Drive at Stafford Place, on the right when traveling south on Bellaire Drive. |
| | On August 29, 2005, a federal floodwall atop a levee on the 17th Street Canal, the largest and most important drainage Canal for the city, gave way here causing flooding that killed hundreds. This breach was one of 50 ruptures in the Federal Flood . . . — — Map (db m92897) HM |
| On South Peters Street near Girod Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | . . . — — Map (db m54330) HM |
| On Camp Street 0 miles from Andrew Higgins Drive, on the right when traveling south. |
| | This 8 in. Columbaid, cast of Alabama iron by the Confederates at Selma, Ala. was mounted in Spanish Fort, Mobile Bay.
The Fifth Company Slocomb's Battery Battallion Washington Artillery of New Orleans, during the siege of that fort by the U.S. . . . — — Map (db m38901) HM |
| On St. Charles Avenue west of Jena Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | The Academy of the Sacred Heart was founded in 1887. It has continued to serve as a Catholic, independent, college preparatory school for girls, offering 15 years of instruction from nursery school through high school. The Rosary, as Sacred Heart is . . . — — Map (db m95686) HM |
| | Erected for John I. Adams, merchant, who in 1860 purchased this part of the former plantation of Jacques Francois de Livaudais, built this house and made his residence here until 1896.
Subsequent family ownerships were
Ferdinand Reusch – . . . — — Map (db m51518) HM |
| On City Park Avenue at North Carrollton Avenue, on the right when traveling west on City Park Avenue. |
| | Plantation of Louis Allard was purchased by his grandfather, Don Santiago Lorreins in 1770's from estate of Francisco Hery, called Duplanty, builder of the first Cabildo Building in N.O. in 1769. Acquired from Allard in 1845 by J. McDonough —- . . . — — Map (db m93085) HM |
| On Royal Steet south of St Philip Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Has been listed in the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
1965 — — Map (db m84803) HM |
| On 2304 Marais Street at Mandeville Street on 2304 Marais Street. |
| | In 1830 the Pontchartrain rail road was built along Elysian Fields to the lake, with half of its route through lands owned by Bernard Marigny. To accommodate settlers, Marigny and his cousin, Nicholas d'Estrehan subdivided the backlands of Faubourg . . . — — Map (db m102848) HM |
| On Chartres Street at Ursuline Street on Chartres Street. |
| | This memorial is a complex of private property of the Catholic Church of New Orleans.
Located on the grounds are several buildings of which the most notable is the OLD URSULINE CONVENT – ARCHIEPISCOPAL RESIDENCE erected by order of King . . . — — Map (db m51313) HM |
| On Magazine Street at Andrew Higgins Drive, on the right when traveling south on Magazine Street. |
| | On June 6, 1944, the three slabs of steel reinforced concrete before you constituted 20 feet and 16 tons of German fortified coastline that ran from the Franco-Spanish border in the south to Norway, over 2,400 miles to the north. "Atlantic Wall" . . . — — Map (db m102717) HM WM |
| On Magazine Street south of Tea Room Drive. |
| | The history of the land bordered by St. Charles Avenue, Exposition Boulevard, Walnut Street and the Mississippi River - now known as Audubon Park - is as rich as any New Orleans tale. Originally comprised of abutting tracts of plantation land owned . . . — — Map (db m114287) HM |
| On Dauphine Street at Conti Street on Dauphine Street. |
| | This typical creole cottage probably built before 1813, is considered the traditional site of the studio of famed naturalist painter, John James Audubon, and the place in which he completed his classic “Birds of America” series during . . . — — Map (db m51356) HM |
| | In The Beginning The land that is now Audubon Park was once a large sugar plantation owned by Etienne de Bore, the first mayor of New Orleans. In 1871, the property was sold to the city for use as "Upper City Park" and a site for a new . . . — — Map (db m117221) HM |
| | In the 1950's, Audubon Zoo became the first zoo to successfully breed whooping cranes. The only previous captive birth was at a Texas wildlife refuge. That chick's mother, Josephine, hailed from Audubon Zoo. One of only two remaining cranes from a . . . — — Map (db m117218) HM |
| | Erected 1842 as a two-story house for Mme. Augustine Eugenie de Lassize widow of Louis Robert Avart J.N.B. de Pouilly and Ernest Goudchauz architect-builders
From 1906 through 1923 it was the residence and studio of the artist Achille . . . — — Map (db m51416) HM |
| On Royal Street at Conti Street on Royal Street. |
| | Built by Bickle, Hamlet & Fox; the iron fence and gates were made by Sterling & Co. of New York.
In 1840 the building was damaged by fire and repairs were made; another fire occurred in 1861 after which the structure was again restored and the . . . — — Map (db m117860) HM |
| On Saint Charles Avenue at Gravier Street on Saint Charles Avenue. |
| | The original Bank of Louisiana in New Orleans was chartered by Governor Claiborne in 1804 and its board included Julien Poydras and John McDonogh. The bank was formed after the Louisiana Purchase to provide the currency for the citizens of Louisiana . . . — — Map (db m51591) HM |
| On Magazine Street at Natchez Street, on the left when traveling south on Magazine Street. |
| | These buildings were once
part of the notable
block – long structure,
Bank’s Arcade
Erected in 1833 by
Thomas Banks
Charles F. Zimpel, Architect
A glass-roofed arcade extended
from Natchez to Gravier Streets,
The upper . . . — — Map (db m102527) HM |
| Near Iberville Street north of Canal Street. Reported permanently removed. |
| |
[ inscriptions, west face, base :]
September 14th 1874
In honor of those Americans on both sides who died in the Battle of Liberty Place
Members of the Metropolitan Police:
John H. H. Camp • John Kennedy • Edward Simon • . . . — — Map (db m34742) HM |
| Near Marconi Court east of Marconi Drive, on the right when traveling north. |
| |
It was twenty years ago today,
John Lennon brought the band to play.
This plaque commemorates the 20th anniversary of The Beatles only concert performance in Louisiana
September 16, 1964, City Park Stadium
Presented by
WRNO Radio to . . . — — Map (db m87847) HM |
| On Angela Street 0.3 miles from North Claiborne Avenue (State Highway 39), on the right when traveling south. |
| | Type: Twin Engine Trainer Weight: 9,300 lbs Armament: Two - .30 caliber machine guns used as gunnery trainer Engine: Two Pratt and Whitney R985 Radials, 450 hp each Max Speed: 215 mph Range: 745 miles Service Ceiling: 20,000 ft. Crew: 2-3 Number . . . — — Map (db m160469) HM |
| On Bayou Road at Esplanade Avenue, on the left when traveling south on Bayou Road. |
| | Erected 1859 for Nicholas M. Benachi Consul of Greece in New Orleans, the fine Greek Revival house was once known as the "Rendezvous Des Chasseurs" purchased in 1886 by Joseph and Peter Torre whose family residence it was until it was . . . — — Map (db m155687) HM |
| On Basin St. near Conti St., in the median. |
| |
Incised on stone:
Peace is based on the respect of the right of others.
BENITO JUAREZ
1806 - 1872
The People of Mexico to the people of the United States of America.
El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz.
BENITO JUAREZ . . . — — Map (db m86112) HM |
| | Bernard de Marigny de Mandeville (1785-1868) a wealthy land-owner, served in the U.S. Army, participated in framing the first and second constitutions of Louisiana, and served in the Louisiana Territorial Legislature. He also was elected President . . . — — Map (db m51643) HM |
| Near Decatur Street north of Conti Street, on the left when traveling south. |
| | . . . — — Map (db m23885) HM |
| On Common Street at Magazine Street, on the right when traveling east on Common Street. |
| | Here, on a plantation granted to him on March 27, 1719 by the company of the Indies, stood the residence of Jean Baptiste LeMoyne de Bienville, founder of New Orleans. This plantation was sold by Bienville on April 11, 1726 to the Jesuit Fathers . . . — — Map (db m132517) HM |
| On Poydras Street at Penn Street, on the right when traveling east on Poydras Street. |
| | This is to certify that
918-920 Poydras Street
was entered into the
National Registry of Historic Places
as part of the
Upper Central Business District Historic District
under the provisions of the
National Historic Preservation Act . . . — — Map (db m133954) HM |
| | African-American Creole guitar and banjo player, songwriter, composer, singer, author, historian, teacher, storyteller, humorist, actor and painter. Jazz Hall of Fame member. Recipient of National Endowment of the Arts Music Master Award and . . . — — Map (db m51525) HM |
| | Erected in 1832 by Antoine Louis Boimaré, bookseller and Louisiana historiographer, the building was completed by Louis Bartehelemy Macary who bought the unfinished house in 1835. The granite arcade and lead-ornamented transoms are excellent . . . — — Map (db m51332) HM |
| | This site 1781-1820 plantation of Jean Etienne Boré (1741-1820) First Mayor of N.O. 1803-1804. Here Boré first granulated sugar in 1795. Purchased for park in 1871. Site of World's Industrial & Cotton Centennial Exposition 1884-1885. — — Map (db m117167) HM |
| On Chartres Street at Wilkinson Street, on the left when traveling north on Chartres Street. |
| |
Built in 1795
by Bartholome Bosque, a native of
Palma, Majorca; father of Suzette
Bosque, third wife of Louisiana’s
first American governor
W.C.C. Claiborne
On this site stood the house of
Don Bernardo de Galvez
Spanish Governor . . . — — Map (db m51412) HM |
| On Prytania Street near First Street. |
| | The design of this post-Civil War mansion of a prominent Louisiana sugar planter, attributed to James Freret, architect, reflects the influence of the French “Ecole des Beaux Arts,” where he studied from 1860 to 1862. Residence of Walter . . . — — Map (db m51519) HM |
| On First Street near Chestnut Street. |
| | James H. Calrow, architect
Charles Pride, builder
Owned by Brevard heirs until 1869 purchased then by Emory Clapp, who added the library wing on the left. It remained in the Clapp family until 1935.
It was then owned and occupied by the . . . — — Map (db m51523) HM |
| | One of three once identical adjacent houses erected in 1834 by Henry R. Denis, attorney Owned by Michel Douradou Bringier 1837-1850 Owned by Edward Barnett, notary – attorney 1850-1876 Remodeled and enlarged by him in 1859 Elijah Cox, . . . — — Map (db m51315) HM |
| On Elysian Fields Avenue at Stephen Girard Street, in the median on Elysian Fields Avenue. |
| | Since 1869 the Brothers and their colleagues have touched the hearts and shaped the lives of the City's youth. As St. Aloysius in the Vieux Carre, Cor Jesu on this site and, since merging in 1969 into Brother Martin High School, belief in God, love . . . — — Map (db m97461) HM |
| On Decatur Street at St Ann Street, on the right when traveling north on Decatur Street. |
| | The original French market coffee stand, serving café au lait and hot beignets (French doughnuts) 24 hours a day, year around. This familiar New Orleans landmark has been located in the French market since the early 1860’s. — — Map (db m95381) HM |
| On Toulouse Street at Dauphine Street on Toulouse Street. |
| | Barthelemy Campanel purchased this site in 1806 and likely built this cottage and two adjacent Toulouse Street cottages in 1811 as rental property.
Campanel, a free man of color, operated a hardware store on North Peters Street, and his family . . . — — Map (db m51359) HM |
| | Canal Street, New Orleans’ widest thoroughfare, has long served as the retail heart of the city. With its broad “neutral ground," it is the traditional dividing line between uptown and downtown and represents two centuries of American . . . — — Map (db m51605) HM |
| On Chestnut Street near Joseph Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Captain Le Verrier Cooley (1855-1931) one of the last of the old-time Mississippi River steamboatmen built this house in 1896 and made it his home until 1925.Captain Cooley's career on the river spanned 62 years and he operated no less than 7 . . . — — Map (db m155701) HM |
| On North Rampart Street 0.1 miles west of Barracks Street, in the median. |
| | The cornerstone of the monastery was laid in April, 1891, James Freret, Architect, Fred Reusch, Jr, Builder. Founded by the Discalced Carmelite nuns, a contemplative and strictly cloistered order of nuns restored to the primitive rule established . . . — — Map (db m102850) HM |
| On North Rampart Street west of Barracks Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | James Freret, Architect Ferdinand Reusch, Jr., Builder Dedicated on November 12, 1895, as the Chapel of Reparations and Monastery of the Discalced Nuns. The cornerstone was laid in 1891 by Archbishop Francis Janssens. The Carmelites, a Catholic . . . — — Map (db m102860) HM |
| On South Claiborne Avenue at South Carrollton Avenue, in the median on South Claiborne Avenue. |
| | In 1833, real estate investors commissioned surveyor Charles F.
Zimpel to lay out the former Macarty sugar plantation
into lots, squares, and streets that formed the village of
Carrollton. Reportedly named in honor of General William
Carroll, . . . — — Map (db m155718) HM |
| On Place John Paul II (Chartres Street), on the left when traveling north. |
| | [Cast at the top of the marker is a rendering of the church]Church of St. Louis, 1727-1788
Cathedral of St. Louis, King of France
The first church on this site designed by Adrien de Pauger was erected 1724-1727 . . . — — Map (db m21552) HM |
| On Bienville Street west of North Tonti Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Central Congregational Church 1872-2005Central Congregational Church of New Orleans was organized by Rev.
Charles H. Thompson, a theology professor at Straight College and
thirty-two incorporators on June 30, 1872. It was the result of . . . — — Map (db m157209) HM |
| On Canal Street 0.1 miles south of City Park Avenue, on the right when traveling south. |
| |
Front
This cemetery was purchased by Charity Hospital in 1848 and was originally known as Potter's Field. It has historically been used to bury the unclaimed victims from throughout the city including victims of several yellow fever . . . — — Map (db m87256) HM |
| On North Jefferson Davis Parkway at Canal Street, on the left when traveling north on North Jefferson Davis Parkway. |
| | Col. Charles Didier Dreaux
Born in New Orleans May 11, 1832
First Conf. officer from Louisiana
Killed in the War Between
the States on the field of
honor near Newport News, VA.
On July 5, 1861
His last words were
"Boys steady" . . . — — Map (db m86011) HM WM |
| On Saint Charles Avenue near Sixth Street, on the right. |
| | This congregation was founded in 1805, the first Episcopal church established in the former Spanish colony after the Louisiana Purchase. In its first service was held in the Cabildo on November 17, 1805. An octagonal Gothic church designed by . . . — — Map (db m104918) HM |
| On Saint Claude Avenue (State Highway 46) east of Alabo Street, in the median. |
| | Civil Rights Pioneers On November 14, 1960, four six-year-old children in New Orleans became the first African-Americans to integrate "white only" public elementary schools in the Deep South. On that day, three girls enrolled in McDonogh No. 19 . . . — — Map (db m99584) HM |
| | Burial place (right) of second wife of Governor W.C.C. Claiborne, Clarisse Duralde, who died in 1809 at the age of 21.
Myra Clark Gaines (left) was the daughter of Daniel Clark (1769-1813), American consul when Spain ruled city and later . . . — — Map (db m51650) HM |
| Near Magazine Street near Tea Room Drive, on the left when traveling east. |
| | By 1893, Audubon Park was starting to resemble a modern city green space. As interest in improving the park grew, its leaders corresponded with several well-known designers, including Frederick Law Olmsted, to discuss the park's future. In 1898, . . . — — Map (db m114194) HM |
| | These are samples of marble slabs used to adorn tombs and crypts after the opening has been sealed with brick and mortar. The tablets were gathered from areas of the cemetery where they has been put aside after falling from neglected or abandoned . . . — — Map (db m51651) HM |
| On Deslonde Street at North Rampart Street, on the right when traveling north on Deslonde Street. |
| | George "Kid Sheik" Cola(r), (1908-1996), cornetist,
trumpeter, pianist, and bandleader, lived
here at 939 Deslonde Street from 1940 to
1988. He was a member of the Eureka Brass
Band, the Olympia Brass Band, had his own
band the Storyville . . . — — Map (db m156482) HM |
| On Fourth Street near Prytania Street. |
| | Built in 1859 for
Colonel Robert H. Short
of Kentucky, commission merchant,
Henry Howard, architect,
Robert Huyghe, builder.
In 1832 this property, which was part of the Lavaudais Plantation was subdivided into city squares.
September 1, . . . — — Map (db m51497) HM |
| | Erected about 1795 by Pedro Commagère after an earlier house on this site was destroyed in the great fire of December 8, 1794.
In 1806 it was occupied in part by John Watkins, mayor of New Orleans and by Mr. Forstall’s store.
Sold by Pedro . . . — — Map (db m51417) HM |
| On Washington Avenue at Coliseum Street on Washington Avenue. |
| | In 1832 this site was part of
the J.F.E. Levaudais Plantation and
was acquired under French grant.
Prior to 1880 the property formed
a part of the City of Lafayette,
Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
Dedicated 1944
To Dining in the Grand . . . — — Map (db m51662) HM |
| | Congo Square is in the “vicinity” of a spot which Houmas Indians used before the arrival of the French for celebrating their annual corn harvest and was considered sacred ground. The gathering of enslaved African vendors in Congo Square . . . — — Map (db m20954) HM |
| On Royal Street near Bienville Street. |
| | The French crown granted this property in the early 1700’s to the Marquis de Mezieres, whose influential family furnished planters, soldiers, administrators, and Indian Traders to the French and Spanish regimes. Maurice Conway, nephew and aide of . . . — — Map (db m51337) HM |
| | Documented red-cream-green colors
Original terracotta, pantile roof
John E. De Cell, AIA, Restoration 1963 — — Map (db m51364) HM |
| On Chartres Street at Dumaine Street on Chartres Street. |
| | Built in 1828 by James Lambert and Louis Lemoyne for Simon Cucullu, these six rowhouses survive as the oldest intact row in the Vieux Carré. Desporte Pharmacy operated here from 1887 to 1970.
On this corner once stood the 1730 celestial . . . — — Map (db m51542) HM |
| | On the eighth day of January, 1815
David Bannister Morgan
Brigadier General U.S.A.
with 400 militia, held his position, called in the British official reports, “The Flanking Battery,” and from which, to employ Gen. Jackson’s . . . — — Map (db m51414) HM |
| | Erected about 1807 by Major General Pierre Denis de la Ronde on whose St. Bernard Parish plantation the first engagement of the Battle of New Orleans was fought on December 23, 1814.
This was de la Ronde’s city residence until his death in 1825, . . . — — Map (db m51541) HM |
| On Henry Clay Avenue near Magazine Street. |
| | John “Johnny” DeDroit (1892-1988) cornetist, and bandleader, lived here at 737 Henry Clay Avenue from 1929 until 1933. He was a cornet soloist at age 12 at the Winter Garden Theater on Baronne St., and subsequently played every New . . . — — Map (db m51491) HM |
| On Chartres Street at Esplanade Avenue on Chartres Street. |
| | One of three once identical row houses erected in 1834 for Henry Raphael Denis, an attorney.
Dr. Jokichi Takamine (1854-1922), Japanese chemist, philanthropist and co-commissioner for the 1884-1885 World’s Cotton Exposition, is said to have . . . — — Map (db m55033) HM |
| | Erected in 1831 by Dominique Bouligny. Construction was begun by John McLeary and completed by James Crowe. The cast-iron verandah is a later addition.
Bouligny, born in New Orleans in 1773, was a soldier, statesman, and planter. He was a . . . — — Map (db m51317) HM |
| On Angela Street 0.3 miles south of North Claiborne Avenue (State Highway 39), on the right when traveling south. |
| | The Douglas A-26 Invader (designated B-26 between 1948-1965) was a single-pilot, twin-engine light bomber and attack aircraft built by Douglas Aircraft during World War II that also saw service during several of the Cold War's major conflicts. It . . . — — Map (db m160440) HM |
| | This site, history tells us was a favorite location for many duels fought by hot blooded young blades in the romantic Antebellum era of the South. Here, mostly young French and Spanish gentlemen settled their differences with sword and pistols. It . . . — — Map (db m51296) HM |
| On N. Rampart Street at Ursulines Ave., on the right when traveling west on N. Rampart Street. |
| | This fine example of late 19th century Italianate architecture was designed by renowned architect G.A. D'Hemecourt and built for Dr. A. Dupaquier in 1879. For many years while a private residence the home was known as The Dupaquier House. Perhaps . . . — — Map (db m131385) HM |
| On Exchange Place at Bienville Street on Exchange Place. |
| | This house was bequeathed to the artist and his sister by their maternal uncle Michael Musson. The property was at one time held by Wm. Kenner. Kenner was in New Orleans to assist Wm.C.C. Claiborne in the transfer of New Orleans and Louisiana . . . — — Map (db m51598) HM |
| | French “Impressionist” master whose mother and grandmother were born in New Orleans. Painted many famous subjects on a visit here in 1872-1873 at Musson Home on Esplanade. His “Portrait of Estelle” bought by Delgado Museum. — — Map (db m51292) HM |
| On Bourbon Street north of Bienville Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | This land for more than 60 years a part of the electric distribution system serving New Orleans, was donated to the City of New Orleans by New Orleans Public Service, Inc. and named in honor of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor and creative genius, a . . . — — Map (db m80412) HM |
| On Prytania Street at Second Street on Prytania Street. |
| | The Greek Revival design by architect William A. Freret was built for Edward A. Davis in 1859. Dr. and Mrs. Herman de Bachelle Seebold purchased the home in 1944 and donated the mansion, furnishings and art in 1965 to the Women’s Guild of the New . . . — — Map (db m51517) HM |
| | First wife of Wm.C.C. Claiborne, first American governor of Louisiana. Also memorialized here are her son and her brother, Micajah Green Lewis, who died in a duel defending the honor of his brother-in-law, Benjamin Latrobe, noted architect, designed . . . — — Map (db m51648) HM |
| | Erected 1824-1825
By Nicholas Joseph Erard
Native of Luneville, Dept. of La Meurthe, France — — Map (db m51363) HM |
| On Decatur Street near Dumaine Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | An important part
of Louisiana's heritage is the famous
Creole cuisine which produced such
tasty delicacies as the praline, crisp
candy made by adding pecans to boiling
sugar. A similar confection was made
in France with almonds, but . . . — — Map (db m54194) HM |
| On Gentilly Boulevard west of Aubry Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | The Louisiana Jockey Club composed of prominent New Orleans citizens, opened the Fair Grounds Course on April 13, 1872. They chose this site which previously had been the scene of Agricultural and Industrial fairs. Through the years five racing . . . — — Map (db m155688) HM |
| On North Miro Street at Anette Street, on the left when traveling east on North Miro Street. |
| | Fannie C Williams Pioneer in Public EducationAs one of New Orleans' premier educators in the first half of the twentieth century, Fannie C. Williams steered this school through decades of challenge and change. An active civic leader, she was . . . — — Map (db m115964) HM |
| On Esplanade Avenue at Frenchmen Street on Esplanade Avenue. |
| | In 1805 Bernard de Marigny began the subdivision of his plantation, creating the first suburb below the original city. As Americans settled up-river, immigrants and free persons of color settled in Faubourg Marigny. — — Map (db m51600) HM |
| On Napoleon Avenue north of St. Charles Avenue, in the median. |
| | Site of the plantation of Louis Bouligny (1781-1862), soldier, planter, statesman. This Faubourg (suburb), laid out in 1834, was bounded by Upperline, General Taylor, Clara, and the river. — — Map (db m149174) HM |
| On Esplanade Avenue at No. Claiborne Avenue, in the median on Esplanade Avenue. |
| | Located on a portion of the Morand-Moreau plantation sold by Claude Faubourg Tremé in 1810 to the city of New Orleans, it became the city’s first subdivision and is considered to be America’s oldest existing African American neighborhood. It was . . . — — Map (db m35124) HM |
| | Here in 1925 William Faulkner, Nobel Laureate, wrote his first novel "Soldiers Pay"
This building was erected in 1840 by the widow of Jean Baptiste LaBranche on a site formerly occupied by part of the yard and buildings of the French Colonial . . . — — Map (db m51418) HM |
| On South Claiborne Avenue (U.S. 90) at Jefferson Avenue, on the right when traveling north on South Claiborne Avenue. |
| | Organized 1817. The first pastor (1818-1820), the Rev. Sylvester Larned, built a church in 1819 in the plain Gothic Style on St. Charles Street near Gravier Street, William Brand, Architect-Builder. A Greek Revival style church was erected . . . — — Map (db m121832) HM |
| On North Rampart Street east of St. Ann Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | First Recording Studio of Cosimo Matassa Built circa 1835 With galleries likely added in the 1850s.In 1944, J&M Amusements acquired this building, and Cosimo Matassa soon opened J&M Recording Studio.Oscar "Papa" Celestine, Danny Barker, and The . . . — — Map (db m149066) HM |
| On South Claiborne Avenue (U.S. 90) near Jefferson Avenue, on the right when traveling east. |
| |
Established in 1833 by Rev. Dr. Theodore Clapp,
a Congregationalist minister
who served as pastor until 1856.
The church became Unitarian in 1837.
The first church building, known as the Strangers'
Church, could hold more than 2,000 . . . — — Map (db m155967) HM |
| | The old Orleans Ballroom built in 1817, served a number of purposes over the decades. Its most unique function was as a convent, orphanage, and school for the Sisters of the Holy Family, a religious community of negro nuns, now located on the Chef . . . — — Map (db m51489) HM |
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