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| Images of Old New Orleans Churches Original St. Joseph's Catholic Church and later St. Katherine's Catholic Church |
| First, St. Joseph's and, later, St. Katherine's Congregational Church Tulane Avenue and Marais Street (I've put 2 and 2 together on this one...and, hopefully, have arrived at 4; if I'm wrong on the ID of the above church, please let me know!) Evidence points to the church in the photo above as having been the first St. Joseph's Catholic Church and, later, St. Katherine's Catholic Church. This church, built in 1846, for an expanding Irish population in Faubourg St. Marie, sat on the site of the present-day Tulane University Medical Center. Only 30+ years after its construction, the congregation had outgrown the church and plans were started for a new, larger St. Joseph's, located at Tulane and Derbigny. In 1895, after the building was vacated, the church was re-named and re-dedicated, its mission to serve the black and multi-racial community of the city. The church was 120 years old in 1966, when it was torn down, mainly due to serious damage caused by Hurricane Betsy the previous year. |
| St. Katherine's, dedicated in 1895, was the first Roman Catholic Church mandated to serve the city's black and multi-racial community. |
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