A 1940 image of St. Louis Cathedral with its three steeples viewed from Jackson Square.

ID: 3005 ~ Source: Courtesy of the Collections of the Louisiana State Museum.

This file appears in: Battle of New Orleans: St. Louis Cathedral

A 1940 image of St. Louis Cathedral with its three steeples viewed from Jackson Square.

This file appears in: Battle of New Orleans: St. Louis Cathedral

Battle of New Orleans: St. Louis Cathedral

By Mary Ann Wegmann, Louisiana State Museum & University of New Orleans History Department

Facing Jackson Square and the Mississippi River, the Cathedral-Basilica of St. Louis, King of France, is the oldest Catholic cathedral in continual use in the United States. With its three steeples, St. Louis Cathedral, as it is commonly known, is…