Historic Shrines of America

Paul Revere's house, Faneuil Hall, the Craigie House where Longfellow wrote, a hundred more — an American pilgrimage told building by building, when many of these places were still fighting to survive.

The Cabildo of New Orleans

4 shrines in this part of Historic Shrines of America.

The Cabildo of New Orleans

The Cabildo of New Orleans: Spain

For eight years more the Cabildo continued its sessions under Spanish rule. Then came the news that Louisiana had been transferred by Spain…

The Cabildo of New Orleans: Capitular

The official document was signed in the Sala Capitular, the hall where the Cabildo met, and was read from the centre gallery. Then the…

The Cabildo of New Orleans: Jackson

Since 1910 the Cabildo, in common with the Presbytere, the old Civil District Court, a building of nearly the same age and appearance…

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