St. Louis Cemetery
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St. Louis Cemetery No. 1
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| Location | Bounded by Basin, St. Louis, Conti, and Treme Sts., New Orleans, Louisiana |
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| Coordinates | 29°57′33.83″N 90°4′17.42″W / 29.9593972°N 90.0715056°W |
| Built | 1789 |
| Architect | Foy, Florville; Monsseaux, P.H. |
| Architectural style | Neo-Classical |
| NRHP Reference # | 75000855 |
| Added to NRHP | July 30, 1975 |
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St. Louis Cemetery No. 2
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| Location | Bounded by Claiborne, Robertson, St. Louis, and Iberville St., New Orleans, Louisiana |
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| Coordinates | 29°57′38″N 90°4′32″W / 29.96056°N 90.07556°W |
| Built | 1823 |
| Architect | Multiple |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival, Exotic Revival, Gothic Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 75000856 |
| Added to NRHP | July 30, 1975 |
Saint Louis Cemetery is the name of three Roman Catholic cemeteries in New Orleans, Louisiana. Most of the graves are above-ground vaults constructed in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Cemeteries No. 1 and No. 2 are included on the National Register of Historic Places and the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 is the oldest and most famous. It was opened in 1789, replacing the city's older St. Peter Cemetery (no longer in existence) as the main burial ground when the city was redesigned after a fire in 1788.
It is 8 blocks from the Mississippi River, on the north side of Basin Street, one block beyond the inland border of the French Quarter. It borders the Iberville housing project. It has been in continuous use since its foundation. The nonprofit group Save Our Cemeteries and commercial businesses offer tours for a fee.
Famous New Orleanians buried in St. Louis No. 1 include Etienne de Boré, wealthy pioneer of the sugar industry and the first mayor of New Orleans; Homer Plessy, the plaintiff from the landmark 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision on civil rights; and Ernest N. "Dutch" Morial, the first African-American mayor of New Orleans.
The renowned Voodoo priestess Marie Laveau is believed to be interred in the Glapion family crypt. Other notable New Orleanians here include Bernard de Marigny, the French-Creole aristocrat and politician who founded both the Faubourg Marigny and Mandeville, Louisiana; Barthelemy Lafon, the architect and surveyor who allegedly became one of Jean Lafitte's pirates; and Paul Morphy, one of the earliest world champions of chess. Delphine LaLaurie, the notoriously cruel slave owner, is also believed to lie in rest here. Architect and engineer Benjamin Latrobe was buried at St. Louis No. 1 after dying from yellow fever in 1820, while doing engineering for the New Orleans water works. In 2010, actor Nicolas Cage purchased a pyramid-shaped tomb to be his future final resting place.
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