RedZone Posted June 18, 2019 Report Share Posted June 18, 2019 History lesson for today.... https://www.theadvocate.com/gambit/new_orleans/news/blake_pontchartrain/article_cea63200-a3c0-59f0-aea9-a6b401199765.html It should come as no surprise that the oldest surviving structure in the city is connected to the Ursuline nuns, who arrived in New Orleans from France just nine years after the city was founded. The early mission of the 16 sisters who came here in 1727 was to minister to sick people and educate young women in the colony. Historians call the Old Ursuline Convent, located at Chartres Street and Ursulines Avenue in the French Quarter, the oldest building in the city. The first Ursuline convent was constructed on Chartres Street in 1732. In 1745, plans for the present building were drafted and it was completed in about 1752, making it the oldest surviving building in the Mississippi River Valley. Many other structures from that time were destroyed in a fire on Good Friday 1788 or a second fire in 1794. The National Parks Service designated the convent a National Historic Landmark in 1960, calling it "the finest surviving example of French Colonial public architecture in the country, Louis XV in style, formal and symmetrical, with restrained ornament." The nuns remained there until 1824, operating an orphanage and school for girls. The school, which has been located Uptown since 1912, is the oldest continuously operating school for girls and the oldest Catholic school in the United States. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan in daytona Posted June 18, 2019 Report Share Posted June 18, 2019 1 hour ago, RedZone said: History lesson for today.... https://www.theadvocate.com/gambit/new_orleans/news/blake_pontchartrain/article_cea63200-a3c0-59f0-aea9-a6b401199765.html It should come as no surprise that the oldest surviving structure in the city is connected to the Ursuline nuns, who arrived in New Orleans from France just nine years after the city was founded. The early mission of the 16 sisters who came here in 1727 was to minister to sick people and educate young women in the colony. Historians call the Old Ursuline Convent, located at Chartres Street and Ursulines Avenue in the French Quarter, the oldest building in the city. The first Ursuline convent was constructed on Chartres Street in 1732. In 1745, plans for the present building were drafted and it was completed in about 1752, making it the oldest surviving building in the Mississippi River Valley. Many other structures from that time were destroyed in a fire on Good Friday 1788 or a second fire in 1794. The National Parks Service designated the convent a National Historic Landmark in 1960, calling it "the finest surviving example of French Colonial public architecture in the country, Louis XV in style, formal and symmetrical, with restrained ornament." The nuns remained there until 1824, operating an orphanage and school for girls. The school, which has been located Uptown since 1912, is the oldest continuously operating school for girls and the oldest Catholic school in the United States. That makes sense. Although a house of prostitution was my first thought.....great city for food and adult entertainment. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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