St. John the Baptist Church, Dryades Street, circa mid-1950s

ID: 1914
This file appears in: Dryades Streetcar Maims Child in the 1920s

St. John the Baptist Church still stands on what has been renamed Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, between Clio and Calliope Streets. The adjacent parish school was being prepared for demolition when this image was recorded. This may have been the school "Pie" Dufour refers to when relating the horrible accident he witnessed.

Courtesy of Louisiana Division/City Archives, New Orleans Public Library

This file appears in: Dryades Streetcar Maims Child in the 1920s

By The New Orleans Historical team
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