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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]
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 ...
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.
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.
The area that would become Storyville is shown in the pink block numbered 63 on this 1887 Sanborn fire insurance map of New Orleans.. Though developed under the proposed title The District, the eventual nickname Storyville originated from City Councilman Sidney Story, who wrote the legislation and guidelines to be followed within the proposed neighborhood limits.
Uptown is a section of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, on the east bank of the Mississippi River, encompassing a number of neighborhoods (including the similarly-named and smaller Uptown area) between the French Quarter and the Jefferson Parish line.
New Orleans East (also referred to as Eastern New Orleans, N.O. East and The East) is the eastern section of New Orleans, Louisiana, a large section of the 9th Ward of New Orleans, mostly not developed until the later 20th century. This collection neighborhood sub divisions represents 65% of the city's total land area, but it is geographically ...
Even before effective drainage was implemented, Hollygrove grew drastically, the effects of which are still visible today. The Greater New Orleans Community Data Center that, pre-Katrina, nearly fifty percent of Hollygrove’s houses were built before 1949. Similarly, before Katrina, over half of the homes in Hollygrove were owner-occupied.