St. Aloysius College, second building, located at Esplanade and Rampart Street |
St. Aloysius College ~ Brother Martin High School |
St. Aloysius College was founded in 1869 by Brothers of the Sacred Heart, who had come to New Orleans from France (by way of Bay St. Louis, MS, where they'd established St. Stanislaus College in 1847). |
The first St. Aloysius was located at Chartres and Barracks Streets. By 1892, the school required a larger building and the Brothers purchased a school building at Esplanade and Rampart Street from the Ursulines, who were moving to a different part of the city. |
When Rampart was widened in 1925, the old school was demolished and a new one was constructed in its place. St. Aloysius, by then a college preparatory school, remained there until it closed its doors in 1969. |
The Brothers, also, closed their school in Gentilly, Cor Jesu, and combined the student bodies of St. Aloysius and Cor Jesu to establish Brother Martin High School. Today, Brother Martin has a large campus on Elysian Fields Avenue and is one of the top schools in the city. |
St. Aloysius, 1100 block of Esplanade, 1920's -- Saints/Hornets owner, Tom Benson, went to school here and graduated in 1944. |
St. Aloysius, the Esplanade building, after the school closed, 1970 |
Brother Martin High School, Elysian Fields Avenue |
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