Most Holy Name of Jesus Church, or McDermott Memorial Church, at 5601 St. Charles Avenue, is a Catholic parish founded in 1866 by Fr. John O'Shanahan, SJ. The neo-Gothic structure was inspired by the Canterbury Cathedral and dedicated on December 9, 1918.
Loyola University New Orleans, a private, Jesuit university, was established as Loyola College in 1904, and chartered as a university in 1912. It bears the name of the Jesuit patron, Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Loyola is one of 28 member institutions that make up the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and, with its current enrollment of approximately 5000 students, is among the larger Jesuit universities in the southern United States.
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Marquette Hall, located at the front of the Loyola University campus, was built from 1907-1910. Named after the Jesuit explorer Fr. Jacques Marquette, S.J., most of the schools classes were conducted there until the construction of Bobet Hall in the late 1920's. The university's first library, the Bobet Library, was located on the third floor of Marquette Hall until the Memorial Library was constructed in the 1950s. When the dentistry school began its operations, the fourth floor of Marquette was used partly as a cadaver dissection area, and an external winch was used to hoist the cadavers up the four floors. Today, Marquette primarily functions as an administrative building.
Loyola University New Orleans, a private, Jesuit university, was established as Loyola College in 1904, and chartered as a university in 1912. It bears the name of the Jesuit patron, Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Loyola is one of 28 member institutions that make up the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and, with its current enrollment of approximately 5000 students, is among the larger Jesuit universities in the southern United States.
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Gibson Hall, facing St. Charles Avenue, is the entry landmark to the uptown campus of Tulane University. Designed in 1894 by architects Harrod and Andry in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, and constructed of stone over brick, it is the oldest structure on the present campus. Gibson Hall was named for Randall Lee Gibson, Confederate General, U.S. Senator from Louisiana and the first President of the University Board of Administrators. The building houses most of the senior level administration as well as the Office of Undergraduate Admission and the School of Continuing Studies.
Tulane University, or officially The Tulane University of Louisiana, a private, nonsectarian university, was established as a public medical college in 1834 and grew into a comprehensive university in 1847 and was eventually privatized under the endowments of Paul Tulane and Josephine Louise Newcomb in 1884. Tulane's primary campus, the Uptown or St. Charles campus, was established in the 1890s and occupies more than 110 acres.
The Tulane University of Louisiana National Historic District is bound by St. Charles Avenue, South Claiborne Street, Broadway and Calhoun Street.
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The Gumbel Memorial Fountain, was installed near the St. Charles Avenue entrance to Audubon Park in 1918. Dedicated to Sophie and Simon Gumbel, the fontain features bronze sculptures by Austrian-born sculptor Isidore Konto.
Audubon Park, bordered by the Mississippi River and St. Charles Avenue, was carved out of the plantations owned by the Foucher and Boré familes in 1871, and initially called Upper City Park. The park is named in honor of artist and naturalist John James Audubon, who began living in New Orleans in 1821. Inside the park, there is a golf course, several lakes, and the 58-acre Audubon Zoo.
In 1884 the World's Industrial and Cotton Exposition, or World Cotton Centennial, celebrating the first shipment of cotton, was held in Audubon Park. The first street car was introduced at the expo, led by motorman/tea baron Thomas Lipton. The Mardi Gras Krewe of Rex arrived at the Expo aboard a yacht, establishing a tradition that survives today. New Orleans was still recovering from the Civil War and Reconstruction, and it was the World's Fair that helped jumpstart development around the city. Most remnants of the Cotton Exposition were demolished or destroyed in the ensuing years and Audubon Park's present form follows a a design drafted by John Charles Olmsted, a principal of the renowned Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture practice.
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Marquette Hall, located at the front of the Loyola University campus, was built from 1907-1910. Named after the Jesuit explorer Fr. Jacques Marquette, S.J., most of the schools classes were conducted there until the construction of Bobet Hall in the late 1920's. The university's first library, the Bobet Library, was located on the third floor of Marquette Hall until the Memorial Library was constructed in the 1950s. When the dentistry school began its operations, the fourth floor of Marquette was used partly as a cadaver dissection area, and an external winch was used to hoist the cadavers up the four floors. Today, Marquette primarily functions as an administrative building.
Loyola University New Orleans, a private, Jesuit university, was established as Loyola College in 1904, and chartered as a university in 1912. It bears the name of the Jesuit patron, Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Loyola is one of 28 member institutions that make up the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and, with its current enrollment of approximately 5000 students, is among the larger Jesuit universities in the southern United States.
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