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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 .
18 sty 2024 · The Metairie Cemetery Association (MCA) constructed an automobile entrance on Pontchartrain Blvd. in the 1900s. The photographer stands with his back to the New Basin Canal. The tumulus seen through the vine-covered entrance arch is that of the Army of Tennessee (Louisiana Division).
A charter was granted to the Metairie Cemetery Association in May of 1872. It was planned and designed by the architect Benjamin Morgan Harrod, who also designed the receiving vault that exists to this day near the cemeteries’ entrance.
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...
Metairie Cemetery is located on a high section of ground known as the Metairie Ridge. The Ridge followed the course of Bayou Metairie, which is roughly the path of modern-day Metairie Road. Metairie Ridge was high ground, a rare commodity in the below-sea level areas away from the Mississippi River.
6 gru 2020 · Metairie Cemetery. Tombs at Metairie Cemetery are more spaciously laid out than in other New Orleans cemeteries and constitute some of the most spectacular and grandiose funerary architecture in the United States. by Karen Kingsley. Courtesy of Louisiana State University Libraries, Special Collections.
9 lis 2015 · Opened in 1871, Metairie Cemetery was a private, non-sectarian burial ground. 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.
