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This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

The St. Charles Hotel used to sit on this site at St. Charles Avenue and bounded by Gravier, Common, and Carondelet Streets. Today it is a Hilton Hotel which neither has any relation to the original hotel at this site, nor any marker indicating the…

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

The site where Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 now stands was once the site of the Livaudais Plantation, which was divided into squares in 1832. Before the land became a city cemetery, these two graves marked the final resting places of slaves who worked on…

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

This placard recognizes the cemetery was part of the Livaudais Plantation, but does not acknowledge the slave graves within, despite mentioning "Here are buried many persons of German and Irish origin who lived in the city of Lafayette."

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

Now considered uptown, or the Garden District, the neighborhood that Lafayette No. 1 sits in was once all plantation. Notably, the defendant in the Plessy vs. Ferguson case, Judge Ferguson, was buried here. He upheld the state law that segregation,…

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

St. Augustine Catholic Church, in the Treme neightborhood, was established in 1841, as a church for free black citizens in New Orleans, but welcomed both free and slave worshipers. A few weeks before the church's dedication in 1842, blacks began…