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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z65_solomon-northup_New-Orleans-LA.html
Located in the Faubourg Marigny, from the corner of Esplanade Ave. and Chartres St., is the former site of Theophilus Freeman's notorious slave pan (demolished after the Civil War) where Solomon Northup, a free man of color from New York, was sold…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z64_our-lady-of-the-rosary-rectory_New-Orleans-LA.html
About 1834, Évariste Blanc had this Greek Revival mansion built on his Bayou St. John estate. His widow, Marie Fannie Labatut Blanc, planned to give the property to the Archdiocese of New Orleans for a parish church as early as 1855 .Fifty years …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YDB_mater-dolorosa-church_New-Orleans-LA.html
This church came into being in 1899, when the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, established in the Town of Carrollton in 1848, and the Mater Dolorosa German Church, which dated from 1871, were united into a single parish. With the cons…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y07_gen-albert-pike-historical_New-Orleans-LA.html
Grand Commander, Supreme Council 33° Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, southern jurisdiction. U.S.A., 1859 - 1891.Erected April 27, 1957 by the Grand Consistory of LA., 32° Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry to co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XXP_the-historic-lower-ninth-ward-industrial-canal-flood-wall-historical_New-Orleans-LA.html
The Historic Lower Ninth WardSide AOn August 29, 2005, at about 7:45a.m., the Industrial Canal flood wall broke with an explosive sound, heard by many residents near North Johnson Street and Jourdan Avenue. At that time, the Lower Ninth Ward was h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XWZ_st-aloysius-college-historical_New-Orleans-LA.html
Founded in 1869 by the Brothers of the Scared Heart on Chartres Street in the Vieux Carré, St. Aloysius College moved in 1892 to a building on Rampart Street, then in 1925 to a new building at the corner of Esplanade Avenue and Rampart Stre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XWY_carmelite-monastery-historical_New-Orleans-LA.html
James Freret, ArchitectFerdinand Reusch, Jr., BuilderDedicated 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 Order…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XWV_annunciation-church-historical_New-Orleans-LA.html
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 Faubour…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XWS_carmelite-chapel-of-st-joseph-and-st-teresa-and-the-carmelite-monastery-historical_New-Orleans-LA.html
The cornerstone of the monastery was laid in April, 1891, James Feret, 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 b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XT0_the-beginning-historical_New-Orleans-LA.html
Stephen Ambrose proposed the idea of a D-Day museum to his close friend Nick Mueller in the year 1990. The two historians at the University of New Orleans first discussed creating the museum over glasses of sherry in the back yard of Ambrose's hom…