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The Harrel Building/New Orleans Redevelopment Authority Offices
The New Orleans Redevelopment Authority is a catalyst for the revitalization of the city, partnering in affordable and equitable strategic developments that celebrate the city’s neighborhoods and…
Myrtle Banks Building
WE’RE MAKIN’ GROCERIES AGAIN .... CENTRAL CITY STYLE.
The New Orleans Mission
Big Easy, Big Heart. Rescue, Recovery, Re-Engagement.
The General Strike of 1892
Over 120 years ago, one of the greatest united strikes happened here in New Orleans.
Comité des Citoyens
Comité des Citoyens, most famous for being the group that organized member Homer Plessy's violation of railroad segregation laws on a train in 1892, was a group that advocated for black New Orleanians…
La Village des Chapitoulas
Paper Monuments Project #014: La Village des Chapitoulas: When Frenchmen and Africans arrived in the bend of the Mississippi that would eventually be re-named New Orleans, they encountered a place…
San Malo Maroons
Paper Monuments Project #010: The San Malo Maroons have the most remarkable and extensively documented history of runaway slave communities in the Western Hemisphere. The Spanish authorities were…
The Enslaved Peoples' Uprising of 1811
Paper Monument Project #002: The 1811 Louisiana Slave Revolt was the largest slave insurrection in the history of the United States that came to a tragic ending. It is a historical event of undeniable…
Marie Baron and Les Forcats
Paper Monument #023: Marie Baron was among thousands of forçats, or French criminals sent to Louisiana in the early 1700s as forced laborers. Marie’s life illustrates the harsh conditions of French…
St. Louis La Nuit: Soldier, Slave, CItizen
Paper Monuments Project #017: Freed from slavery for extraordinary service by his French planter “owner,” La Nuit’s was in the vanguard of black entrepreneurial men and women who claimed civic…
Sit-In at McCrory's: September 17, 1960
Paper Monument Project #004: In September 1960, the New Orleans chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE, staged two high-profile sit-ins in an attempt to desegregate Canal Street lunch…
Faulkner's House
William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897, and frequently used his familiar Southern surroundings as the setting for many of his works. Faulkner was an American novelist and poet…
French Market
The French Market is a notable location right at the edge of the French Quarter. The market was built in 1791 and has continued to be a historic and important location for the people of New Orleans.…
Beignets
Enjoyed with a hot cup of New Orleans’ chicory coffee, the beignet, pronounced “bayne-yay”, is the official doughnut of Louisiana. True to an American migration story, the beignet’s journey to…
Coffee in New Orleans
In the nineteenth century, the port of New Orleans grew from a colonial supply depot into the second largest port in the country and the fourth largest in the world during the 1840s. European…
St. Augustine/Tremé Plantation Site
During 1998 and 1999, the Greater New Orleans Archaeology Program, under the direction of Christopher Mathews, undertook testing and data recovery at the St. Augustine Site (16OR148), in the Tremé…
Henriette Delille
Paper Monument Project #003: Henriette Delille, a free woman of color, founded the Sisters of the Holy Family in 1842. The sisters were devoted to the care of impoverished enslaved people and free…
Dorothy Mae Taylor
Paper Monument Project #007: Dorothy Mae Taylor was the first Black woman elected to Louisiana State Legislature, celebrated for her tireless work to end discrimination by Mardi Gras krewes.
St. Anthony's Garden
Saint Anthony’s Garden is located just behind the landmark St. Louis Cathedral in the heart of the French Quarter. The space is easily identifiable by the large iron fence and the statue of Jesus…
Congo Square/Armstrong Park
During 1977 and 1978, the University of New Orleans conducted an archaeological project within what is now Armstrong Park. It focused on two areas, the Jazz Complex, a small area around what had been…
The Greater New Orleans Bridge Number 2
In 1983, archaeologists of Coastal Environments, Inc. conducted extensive testing and excavations for the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development in the areas of the proposed east-bound…
The Hermann-Grima House
The Hermann-Grima house at 820 St. Louis Street is a Federal-style mansion built in 1831 for Samuel Hermann, a German-born immigrant who moved to New Orleans in 1810. The lot on which it stands has a…
The Funeral of André Cailloux: Fallen Captain of the Louisiana Native Guards Buried July 29, 1863
Paper Monument #002: Thousands lined Esplanade Avenue to witness the funeral procession for Captain André Cailloux, the one of the early organizers of the Louisiana Native Guards, the first all-black…
McDonogh Day Boycott: May 7, 1954
Paper Monument Project #002: On May 7, 1954, Lafayette Square was the site of one of the South's earliest organized civil rights protests centered on equality in public schooling. It was also one of…