St. Louis Cathedral and Place D'Armes, 1847

ID: 1967 ~ Source: Courtesy of the Collections of the Louisiana State Museum.

This file appears in: Battle of New Orleans: St. Louis Cathedral

St. Louis Cathedral as it appeared in 1847 flanked by the Cabildo on the left and the Presbytere on the right.

This file appears in: Battle of New Orleans: St. Louis Cathedral

Battle of New Orleans: St. Louis Cathedral

By Mary Ann Wegmann, Louisiana State Museum & University of New Orleans History Department

Facing Jackson Square and the Mississippi River, the Cathedral-Basilica of St. Louis, King of France, is the oldest Catholic cathedral in continual use in the United States. With its three steeples,…