C.M. Washington High School, the first public high school for African- American students in Thibodaux, was dedicated on December 18, 1950. The school included grades 1-12. It was named...
This church was established in 1867 with the help of the Freedman's Aid Society, an organization that provided for the spiritual needs of freed Black slaves. The Society's...
Once part of Ridgefield Plantation, the land for the Church and Cemetery fronted on the Terrebonne Road - now Jackson Street - connecting Bayous Lafourche and Terrebonne. An entire block...
Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1806, Polk attended the University of North Carolina before receiving an appointment to West Point, from which he graduated in 1827. He soon resigned...
GARDEN DISTRICT ASSOCIATION MOORE MCNAMARA HOUSE Designed by noted architect Thomas Sully and built in 1892 for Irish-born, prominent banker Robert Moore Sr., this significant Garden District...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 1933-1945 Day of Infamy Speech "Yesterday, December 7, 1941-a date which will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and...
610 Tchoupitoulas Street First Renaissance Building Built in 1843 and occupied in the 1930's by Southern Coffee Mills Ltd., coffee producers for Café Du Monde. Purchased and renovated in 1999...
MERCHANTS MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY BUILDING ERECTED IN 1859 WILLIAM A. FRERET, JR., ARCHITECT C. CROZIER, CARPENTER-BUILDER THE LOCAL FOUNDRY OF BENNETT & LURGES CRAFTED THE CAST-IRON...
510 CANAL STREET (BUILDING TO THE RIGHT) This Italianate Style building dates back to the post- Civil War era and is the last of a pair of identical buildings in the city. In 2017 the Sazerac...
PARISH ORLEANS LANDMARKS COMMISSION RILLIEUX- WALDHORN HOUSE ERECTED 1795-1800 FOR VINCENT RILLIEUX-1740-1800 NEW ORLEANS MERCHANT AND GREAT-GRANDFATHER OF EDGAR DEGAS NOTED...
LOUISIANA STATE BANK BUILDING HAS BEEN DESIGNATED A NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK THIS SITE POSSESSES NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE IN COMMEMORATING THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1983 ...
Audubon Room 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...
VIEUX CARRE HAS BEEN DESIGNATED A REGISTERED NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE HISTORIC SITES ACT OF AUGUST 21, 1935 THIS SITE POSSESSES EXCEPTIONAL VALUE IN...
BIRTHPLACE DANNY BARKER January 13, 1909 African- American Creole guitar and banjo player, songwriter, composer, singer, author, historian, teacher, storyteller, humorist, actor and painter. Jazz...
IN THE PROTESTANT SECTION OF THIS CEMETERY WERE INTERRED BENJAMIN HENRY BONEVAL LATROBE BORN FULNECK, ENGLAND. MAY 1.1764. DIED NEW ORLEANS, SEPTEMBER 3. 1820 FOUNDER OF THE...
THE NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS TOMB This historic tomb which since the 19th century had interred the Sacred Union Society and the Barbarin Family now also acts as the New Orleans Musicians Tomb....
TO FRANCES PARKINSON KEYES FOR HER CONTRIBUTION TO LOUISIANA LITERATURE, THE RESTORATION OF BEAUREGARD HOUSE AND GARDEN AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KEYES FOUNDATION PLACED HERE BY THE VIEUX CARRE...
Organized in October of 1952 by a group of educators who worked at Washington Elementary School. The mission of the organization is to provide humanitarian services to enhance community life. The...