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New Orleans at the start of the 1850s, view looking downriver from atop St. Patrick's Church. The street running down the center of the view is Camp Street. Lafayette Square is seen to the left, with Gallier Hall (the neoclassical building) and the old First Presbyterian Church (with spire) facing the square. The curve of the Mississippi River around Algiers Point is seen at top right.

Note: While published in 1852, the view shows the distinctive dome of the first St. Charles Hotel building (large building just to the right of the center of the image) which caught fire on 18 January 1851. The Hotel was then rebuilt without the dome. While this would suggest the view must be no later than mid January 1851, the closer domed building seen in the second block to the right of Lafayette Square seems to be the old Odd Fellows Hall, listed as not completed until 1852. Possibly the view is a composite. I'd speculate the artist may have put the dome of the first St. Charles Hotel at the location where at the time of the view the second St. Charles was actually in an incomplete state of construction.
Date view, published 1852
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1852 color engraving by John W. Hill, published by Smith Brothers & Co. 225 Fulton St., New York.

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