Cabildo, circa 1815, year of the Battle of New Orleans

ID: 2367

This file appears in: The Cabildo: Home of the Louisiana Supreme Court, 1853-1910

Courtesy of Louisiana State Museum.

This file appears in: The Cabildo: Home of the Louisiana Supreme Court, 1853-1910

The Cabildo: Home of the Louisiana Supreme Court, 1853-1910

By Mary Ann Wegmann, The Law Library of Louisiana & University of New Orleans History Department

Regarded as Louisiana’s most important historical building, the Cabildo is located at 701 Chartres Street, the corner of Chartres and St. Peter Streets. Viewed from Jackson Square across Chartres…