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The Lee Circle Main Library around the time of its opening in 1908. The system began in 1895 in the Fisk Free and Public Library in a building on Lafayette Square. [1] Abijah Fisk was a merchant who, over fifty years earlier, had left his house—at the corner of Iberville and Bourbon Streets—to the city for use as a library.
Now a museum and genealogical library 2: Jennings: Jennings: Mar 9, 1907: $10,000 303 Cary Ave. 3: Lake Charles Lake Charles: Oct 17, 1901: $10,000 411 Pujo St. Replaced c.1950 4: New Orleans Main New Orleans: Dec 29, 1902: $350,000 Demolished c.1960 5: New Orleans Algiers New Orleans: Dec 29, 1902 — 725 Pelican Ave. 6: New Orleans Canal New ...
The Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center is located in the Broadmoor neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana. It stands on the corner of Napoleon Avenue and South Broad Street which serve as the north/south, and east/west markers in the neighborhood. The library is a branch of the greater New Orleans Public Library System. The Broadmoor ...
The current state library was not the first. The Louisiana State Library was created in 1838. It was originally located in New Orleans, which was the state capital at the time. In 1849 the capital was moved to Baton Rouge, and the library also moved. [2] During the Civil War the library was moved back to New Orleans to protect the collection ...
New Orleans Item-Tribune: New Orleans: 1924 1958 Began as Daily City Item in 1877 [4] L'Abeille (The New Orleans Bee) New Orleans: 1827 1923 New-Orleans Commercial Bulletin: New Orleans: 1832 1871 [25] New Orleans States-Item: New Orleans: 1958 1980 [26] The New Orleans Tribune: New Orleans: 1864 1870 [27] Opelousas Courier: Opelousas: 1852 ...
The Administration building is also named as a City of New Orleans landmark, [3] although it does not appear on the list of city Historical Landmarks. [4] According to the National Register of Historic Places nomination the main building and the convent are two distinct buildings, [ 2 ] while some sources describe the structures as two wings of ...
The Howard-Tilton Memorial Library was founded in 1938, when the collections of three pre-existing, smaller libraries were merged. [1] The most significant of these early library collections was that of the F.W. Tilton Memorial Library, dedicated in 1902 in honor of New Orleans businessman and philanthropist Frederick William Tilton.
In 1938, General Lewis Kemper Williams [4] (1887-1971), a World War I veteran, Brigadier General in World War II, [5] [6] businessman, and honorary Consul General of Monaco in New Orleans, [7] and his wife, Leila Hardie Moore Williams [8] (1901-1966) bought two properties in the French Quarter, the Spanish Colonial Merieult House on Royal Street and a late 19th-century residence next to the ...