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The early-twentieth-century tomb of Lucien Brunswig, designed by the Weiblen Marble Company, features a pyramid, sphinx, and female figure gesturing toward the bronze door. Metairie Cemetery merged with Lake Lawn Cemetery in the 1970s; Lake Lawn’s mausoleum dates to 1949.
Narrow your results to famous, Non-Cemetery Burials, memorials with or without grave photos and more. Dedicated for Cemetery Purposes July 2, 1872 Approx. 150 acres. Metairie Cemetery is located on a high section of ground known as the Metairie Ridge.
Metairie Cemetery has the largest collection of elaborate marble tombs and funeral statuary in the city. One of the most famous is the Army of Tennessee, Louisiana Division monument, a monumental tomb of Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War .
27 paź 2021 · Spread over 127 acres that used to contain a racetrack, Metairie Cemetery holds the graves of nine governors, 12 New Orleans mayors and six state Supreme Court justices, along with — among many...
9 lis 2015 · Two Civil War veterans groups (Confederate), the Army of Northern Virginia (Louisiana Division) and the Army of Tennessee (Louisiana Division) Associations made plans and eventually constructed magnificent burial places for their members.
17 paź 2013 · Today the cemetery is well known for its particularly lovely monumental architecture and funeral sculptures, dedicated to some of the city’s noteworthy early heroes and notorious residents both.
26 kwi 2016 · The history and beauty of Metairie Cemetery, built on a former race track at the western edge of Orleans Parish, will be the topic at the second in a free series of Save Our Cemeteries...
