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Streets on the Table Episode 1: Allen Toussaint
In 2019, the New Orleans City Council launched a city-wide effort to change the names of streets honoring white supremacists. While the city implemented its renaming efforts, a clear need for an…
Streets on the Table: Introduction
In 2019, the New Orleans City Council launched a city-wide effort to change the names of streets honoring white supremacists. While the city implemented its renaming efforts, a clear need for an…
The Old Ursuline Convent
In 2011, Shannon Lee Dawdy, an archaeologist and professor with the University of Chicago’s Department of Anthropology, conducted an excavation with students and volunteers at the site of the Ursuline…
Pelican Stadium
In 1908, Pelican Park opened on South Carrollton Avenue, situated between Palmyra and Banks Streets. In 1915, sections of the stadium were dismantled and moved by mules to the corner of Tulane and…
Camp Leroy Johnson
During WWII, Camp Leroy Johnson was used along with the New Orleans Airport by the Army and Airforce Bomber Squadron for training. Signal and Quartermaster units were trained on the post, which housed…
Pontchartrain Beach Amusement Park
Pontchartrain Beach Amusement Park was created during the Lakeshore reclamation project of the 1920s.
The Orleans Levee Board began the project with the construction of a seawall which was…
LaGarde Army/Navy Hospital
LaGarde Hospital was built in 1941 to relieve congestion during the Second World War at other regional Army hospitals such as Camp Beauregard in Pineville, Louisiana, and Camp Shelby in Hattiesburg,…
New Canal Coast Guard Station
The US Coast Guard's lakefront station was once located at Spanish Fort. By the 1960s, the structure at Spanish Fort had sustained damage from many hurricanes and was in disrepair. The station then…
New Canal Lighthouse
In the 1830s, Irish and German immigrants dug the New Basin Canal as a link between New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain. The lake end of the canal featured the New Canal Lighthouse, originally an…
Chinatown
Paper Monument Project #016 Chinatown: New Orleans once had a Chinatown — two, in fact. Its origins trace back to machinations in the global labor market over 150 years ago.
Dr. Norman C. Francis
Paper Monument Poster #020: Norman C. Francis was President of Xavier University for 46 years and is honored as the nation’s longest-serving college president.
Madre Francesca Cabrini
Paper Monuments Project #024: The story of Mother Cabrini's work on behalf of Italian immigrants in late-19th and early 20th-century New Orleans.
Pass the Mayo: The Story of the South’s Legendary Spread: Blue Plate Mayonnaise Factory: A Cultural and Historic New Orleans Icon
Blue Plate Mayonnaise Factory was one of the exclusive producers of the once gourmet condiment that is loved and adored by people across the country. This is important to especially the denizens of…
The Gables
In 1897, Newcomb College was becoming cramped, and President Dixon found himself writing to the President of Tulane. He expressed the need for another dorm to house all the girls and accommodate the…
The Old Newcomb Gym
Newcomb administrators and faculty members were rather unique in their ideas about the physical education of women, especially when compared to other schools at the time. Dixon hired Clara Baer to…
Warren House (Washington Campus)
Built soon after the end of the Civil War, Warren House was later named after Mrs. Newcomb's deceased husband, Warren Newcomb. The building was secured by the Tulane Educational Fund for Newcomb…
Morris Building: The Household Economy Building
Purchased in 1901 by the Tulane Educational Fund for Newcomb College, the Morris Building became home to the School of Household Arts in 1909.
The Newcomb Art and Pottery Buildings
Under the guidance of Ellsworth Woodward, the Newcomb pottery program began flourishing in the mid-1890s. In 1896, the first public display of the pottery produced by the students was presented, to…
Josephine Louise House
Mrs. Newcomb bought this house across from the Washington Avenue campus for a residence hall for the growing school in 1894. The original Josephine Louise House was managed by Alice Bowman, who was…
The Old Newcomb Chapel
The chapel held a particular spot in Mrs. Newcomb's heart, as she saw it as symbolic of her daughter, Sophie. Mrs. Newcomb ordered Tiffany windows for this building, as well as a specially built organ…
The Old Newcomb Music School
In 1909, Newcomb's School of Music building, which was built between 1850-60, was leased from the Tulane Educational Fund to house the new program. This building served as the home of the music…
The Arcade
In 1896, Mrs. Newcomb contributed to both a pottery building and an arcade to connect the high school with College Hall.
The girls of Newcomb were thrilled with finally having their "missing link,"…
College Hall
College Hall was built by James Robb, a wealthy banker, between 1852 and 1854. After a series of personal and financial misfortunes, Robb sold the mansion to John Burnside, a merchant who died in…
Newcomb House
After the completion of Josephine Louise House in 1895, Mrs. Newcomb attempted to live in the building with the students, but found that their chatter ill suited to her need for quiet.
She moved to…