"Municipal Auditorium"

ID: 3819 ~ Source: Rebecca Ann Photography ~ Creator: Brett Todd ~ Date: 2015

This file appears in: “Confined in the Dungeons”: Orleans Parish Prison and Self-Emancipated People

This photograph shows the Municipal Auditorium. This building rest on the site of where the old Orleans Parish Prison once stood.

This file appears in: “Confined in the Dungeons”: Orleans Parish Prison and Self-Emancipated People

“Confined in the Dungeons”: Orleans Parish Prison and Self-Emancipated People

By Lauren Smith, Kathryn O'Dwyer, Editor & Brett Todd. Contributor

Located in Treme, the original Orleans Parish Prison stood where the Municipal Auditorium and Louis Armstrong Park stand today. From the 1830s to 1895, the prison housed individuals accused of crimes,…