Cabildo (New Orleans)
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| location | 701 Chartres Street, New Orleans , Louisiana | ||
| Coordinates | 29 ° 57 '26 " N , 90 ° 3' 51" W | ||
| Built | 18th century | ||
| NRHP number | 66000373 | ||
| The NRHP added | October 9, 1966 | ||
The Cabildo is a historic building in New Orleans . It is located in the center of the historic French Quarter next to St. Louis Cathedral on Jackson Square . It was built between 1795 and 1799 as the seat of the Spanish colonial administration . In Spain and its colonies, a local administrative unit and its official seat were called Cabildo . Part of the Louisiana State Museum's exhibition is now in the New Orleans Cabildo .
history
In 1788 a city fire destroyed large parts of New Orleans. Six years later, a fire and two hurricanes destroyed other parts of the not yet fully rebuilt city. After these catastrophes, the Spanish colonial administration began to replace the previously dominant wooden architecture with more stable and less fire-prone stone buildings. The architect Gilberto Guillemard was commissioned to redesign what is now Jackson Square. He designed the St. Louis Cathedral and the two mirror-image buildings flanking the church: the presbyter and the cabildo. From then on, the cabildo served as the main building of the colonial administration.
1803 was the Cabildo, the handover ceremony for the agreements signed in Paris Louisiana Purchase ( Louisiana Purchase ) instead. In order for the acquired United States , the Louisiana colony , which since 1800 to France belonged. The colony comprised parts of what is now the state of Louisiana , the present-day states of Arkansas , Missouri , Iowa , Oklahoma , Kansas , Nebraska and South Dakota , parts of Minnesota , North Dakota , Texas , New Mexico , Colorado , Wyoming , Montana and the southern states of Canada . The 2,144,476 km² of land make up almost a quarter of what is now the United States.
In the 1840s, the Cabildo was expanded at the instigation of the Baroness de Pontalba to match the newly built Pontalba Buildings on both sides of Jackson Square . The third floor was added. The wrought iron grilles were erected on the ground floor, which are characteristic of the architectural style in New Orleans at that time.
The Cabildo remained the headquarters of the government and administration until 1853. It then became the seat of the Louisiana State Supreme Court . In 1895 the city council proposed tearing down the cabildo and presbytery and building more spacious and contemporary courthouses on this site. This project sparked protests. At the suggestion of the painter William Woodward and the Louisiana Historical Society, both buildings were finally assigned to the Louisiana State Museum , which opened its first exhibitions there in 1911.
On May 11, 1988 - 200 years after the devastating city fire of 1788 - the Cabildo burned again. The fire destroyed the upper floor and the domed roof. In 1994 the restored building was reopened with a completely redesigned exhibition. The Cabildo survived Hurricane Katrina with only slight damage thanks to the French Quarter's slightly elevated location compared to the rest of the city.
The Cabildo has been a National Historic Landmark since October 1960 . In 1966 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places .
collection
The Cabildo collection depicts the history of Louisiana and its people from the first settlement to the 19th century. The exhibition includes everyday objects and art objects, paintings, photographs and documents of the diverse cultures of the indigenous tribes in the area of today's Louisiana as well as from the colonial times, the time around the Louisiana Purchase , the Battle of New Orleans , the American Civil War and the phase of Reconstruction .
See also
Web links
- The cabildo on the pages of the Louisiana State Museum
- The Cabildo on the Louisiana State Pages
- The Cabildo on the National Park Service pages
- The cabildo on the pages of the Tulane School of Architecture
- Development association Friends of the Cabildo
Individual evidence
- ^ Sally Reeves: French Quarter Fire and Flood. In: FrenchQuarter.com. Retrieved July 9, 2017 .
- ^ Cox Corridors. Retrieved July 29, 2017 .
- ↑ a b The Cabildo. (No longer available online.) In: Louisiana State Museums. Archived from the original on January 11, 2015 ; accessed on June 18, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A b The Cabildo: Two Centuries of Louisiana History. In: crt.state.la.us. Retrieved July 9, 2017 .
- ^ Tulane School of Architecture: The Cabildo and Presbytere. Retrieved July 9, 2017 .
- ^ A b Joseph F. Meany Jr., Karen W. Engelke: Louisiana State Museum . In: The Journal of American History . tape 83 , no. 3 , 1996, p. 946-952 .
- ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Louisiana. National Park Service , accessed August 3, 2019.
- ^ National Register of Historic Places - LOUISIANA - Orleans County. Retrieved July 9, 2017 .
