Tunnel, beneath Lasalle Street
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WPA workers completing the tunnel connecting Hutchinson Memorial to Charity Hospital. The passage way is approximately 150 ft. long and 10 ft., and it was used to connect the LSU medical school and the hospital.
Courtesy of Louisiana Division/City Archives, New Orleans Public Library
This file appears in: Building Charity Hospital, Architect Leon Weiss
Building Charity Hospital, Architect Leon Weiss
Leon C. Weiss was a well-known Louisiana architect whose firm Weiss, Dreyfous and Seiferth designed many significant public buildings and other structures throughout Louisiana.
Governor Huey P. Long commissioned Weiss, one of Long's campaign…