"The Athenaeum."

ID: 5144 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the New Orleans Public Library, Louisiana Division, Charles Milo Williams Photograph Collection. ~ Date: 1905.

This file appears in: Young Men’s Hebrew Association's Athenaeum

The building was destroyed by fire on January 17, 1905.

This file appears in: Young Men’s Hebrew Association's Athenaeum

Young Men’s Hebrew Association's Athenaeum

By Timothy Rodriguez & Kathryn O'Dwyer, Editor

“One of the handsomest structures in the city will be the new building of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association,” [1] said an article from the New Orleans States when the Athenaeum opened in 1896. With various Jewish families from the New Orleans area…