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The Ursulines also began the first school of music in New Orleans. The Ursulines established an orphanage in the convent and one of the first hospitals in New Orleans. They worked in health care, and treated malaria and yellow fever among the slave population. The hospital usually had from thirty to forty patients, most of them soldiers. [5]
For over twenty-three years the Abbey's "Pennies for Bread" has been baking about 2000 loaves of bread each week for distribution to organizations that serve the homeless and the poor of New Orleans and the North Shore: orphanages, homes for battered women, and anyone else who needs to feed many hungry people on a nonprofit budget.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States, which is consolidated with the city of New Orleans. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
Built in 1847–1852 after the state legislature voted to move the seat of government from New Orleans, within 15 years the "castle" had been severely damaged during the Union Army's Civil War occupation of Baton Rouge.
The Institute Catholique, also known as L'Institut Catholique des orphelins indigents (Catholic Institute for Indigent Orphans) and the Couvent School, was a Catholic school founded in New Orleans in 1840. It mainly served the non-orphan children of free people of color, who paid a modest tuition, and was founded with funds from Marie Couvent.
Portrait of Margaret Haughery, c. 1842, by Jacques Amans.. Margaret Haughery (1813–1882) was a philanthropist known as "the mother of the orphans". Margaret Gaffney Haughery (pronounced as HAWK -r- ee) was a beloved historical figure in New Orleans, Louisiana the 1880s.
Located in 617 Chartres St, New Orleans, LA 70130 [9] Brennan's: New Orleans, Louisiana: 1795 Residence Former bank, now a restaurant in the French Quarter, located at 417 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 [10] The Cabildo: New Orleans, Louisiana: 1795-1799 Government Located in Jackson Square [11] Pitot House: New Orleans, Louisiana: 1799 ...
It is by some accounts the oldest structure in New Orleans, built between 1748 and 1752. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] The convent and its associated school, Ursuline Academy , moved downriver to a site on Dauphine Street in the 9th Ward in 1824, turning over the original convent to the bishop of New Orleans ...