| Pictures from the Past |
| Bosworth-Hammond house, Washington Avenue; above left, picture taken in 1893; above right, in 1963; below, photos of garden and kitchen. |
| 1436 Pauger Street, built in 1807; photo taken ca 1936 |
| Cabildo, left, and a close-up of its front gates, right. The Cabildo was built 1795-1799, under Spanish rule; it sits to the right of St. Louis Cathedral, with the Presbytere to the left of the Cathedral. These photos were taken in 1934. |
| The oldest building in the French Quarter---in fact, the oldest building in the Mississippi Valley---is the Old Ursuline Convent (above), a part of the Archbishop Antoine Blanc Memorial complex. The convent was constructed in 1745. There was a previous building on the site that was built in 1734, and the staircase, bottom right, was taken from that building, as was the baptismal font, bottom left. (But there is an artifact in the building older than these, a clock which the nuns brought with them from France in 1727, when they first came to New Orleans.) These pictures were taken in 1936. |
| On right, 1838 drawing of the Orleans Ball Room with attached Orleans Theatre to its right. The opulent Ball Room and Theatre opened in 1817 and for many years they were the center of the city's society balls and musical venues. The theatre eventually burned, but the ballroom survived, later to become the home of the Sisters of the Holy Family (notice the cross still atop the building in the 1960 photo below). In the 1960's, the nuns sold the building and the ballroom was restored and became a part of the luxurious Bourbon Orleans Hotel. |
| Sketch of Jackson Square drawn in 1940 shows Cabildo, St. Louis Cathedral & Presbytere |
| The old prison, the Calabazo, in back of the Cabildo; a prison during Spanish rule |
| The Arsenal, built in 1839, photo ca 1934 |
| Streetcars on Canal Street, 1907 |
| Presbytere, built some time between 1796-1805; photo ca 1934 |
| Workers at the Lane Cotton Mill, 1913 |
| Hauntings at the Bourbon Orleans Guests and employees of the hotel have heard the phantom sounds of children---possibly students of St. Mary's Academy, who fell victim to one of the city's Yellow Fever epidemics. The most frequently reported tale is that a girl is seen rolling her ball and chasing it down the sixth floor corridor. The hotel may, also, be home to a uniformed Confederate soldier, sighted roaming the corridors. In the famous Orleans Ballroom, a dancer has been spotted waltzing beneath the chandeliers. |
| Beauregard-Keyes House, Chartres & Ursuline |
| First mail plane lands in New Orleans, 1925 |
| This 1918 photo of Johnson Ironworks gives a good view of Bayou St. John before houses were constructed all along its banks. |
| Waifs Home, 1907 |
