Saint Louis Cemetery Number 2
New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
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New Orleans, Louisiana 70112 United StatesCoordinates: 29.96072, -90.07574 - www.nolacatholiccemeteries.org
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From contemporary maps, the cemetery is shown as one continuous piece of property running from Canal to St. Louis Streets. The division into squares was done when Iberville, Bienville, Conti and St. Louis Streets were cut through. Four-fifths of the square once facing Canal Street, though fenced, was only used for a few scattered burials; it adjoined the property of Newton Richards, a builder of tombs and monuments who had bought it in 1840. In 1845, Increase Stoddard Wood bought out Richards and succeeded in getting the New Orleans City Council to sell him the rest of the square for $11,400 in March 1846. To do this, the Council had to annul the City's gift of the land, made 23 years previously to the wardens of Saint Louis Cathedral on the grounds that to extend the cemetery to Canal Street at that time would endanger the health of the rapidly growing city. The City set aside the money to be used to create another cemetery, which eventually happened with the establishment of Saint Louis Cemetery No. 3 (Cimetière Saint-Louis N° 3).
Saint Louis Cemetery No. 2 (Cimetière Saint-Louis N° 2) is well laid out with a straight center aisle and parallel side aisles. All three of the squares are surrounded by wall vaults except one side of the middle square.
From contemporary maps, the cemetery is shown as one continuous piece of property running from Canal to St. Louis Streets. The division into squares was done when Iberville, Bienville, Conti and St. Louis Streets were cut through. Four-fifths of the square once facing Canal Street, though fenced, was only used for a few scattered burials; it adjoined the property of Newton Richards, a builder of tombs and monuments who had bought it in 1840. In 1845, Increase Stoddard Wood bought out Richards and succeeded in getting the New Orleans City Council to sell him the rest of the square for $11,400 in March 1846. To do this, the Council had to annul the City's gift of the land, made 23 years previously to the wardens of Saint Louis Cathedral on the grounds that to extend the cemetery to Canal Street at that time would endanger the health of the rapidly growing city. The City set aside the money to be used to create another cemetery, which eventually happened with the establishment of Saint Louis Cemetery No. 3 (Cimetière Saint-Louis N° 3).
Saint Louis Cemetery No. 2 (Cimetière Saint-Louis N° 2) is well laid out with a straight center aisle and parallel side aisles. All three of the squares are surrounded by wall vaults except one side of the middle square.
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- Added: 1 Jun 2001
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 533315
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