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by native-born Henry Hobson
Richardson in 1888. This
architectural masterpiece, with
its splendid wood-paneled
rotunda, is incorporated into
the very contemporary Goldring
Hall. These two structures are
designed to wrap around the
Confed erate Memorial Hall, so
that the complex fronts both
Camp Street and Lee Circle.
The museum contains works
from the 18th to the 21st century,
and portrays the diversity of
urban and rural life in the South
from the Depression to the
modern day. The collection
includes works by William Henry
Buck, Clarence Millet, John
McCrady, George Dureau, Robert
Gordy, Clementine Hunter,
and Ida Kohlmeyer.
On Thursdays, the Ogden
After Hours features live
Memorial to Robert E. Lee at Lee Circle music, refreshments, and
special exhibits.
r Lee Circle War due to poor defenses and
an unwillingness to see the city
St. Charles Ave and Howard Ave. Map 4 y Confederate
B5. @ 11, 41. v St. Charles. 7 burned down.
Memorial Hall
The towering 60-ft (18-m) t Ogden Museum 929 Camp St at Howard Ave.
column at the center of Lee Map 4 B5. Tel 523-4522. @ 11, 41.
Circle, topped by a 16-ft (5-m) of Southern Art v St. Charles. Open 10am–4pm
statue of Confederate general Camp St at Howard Ave. Map 4 B5. Tue–Sat. Closed major holidays. &
Robert E. Lee, is one of the Tel 539-9600. @ 11. v St. Charles. 8 ∑ confederatemuseum.com
city’s key landmarks. For many Open 10am–5pm Wed–Mon
years, the Lee Circle area was (to 8pm Thu). & 8 7 One of the oldest museums
merely a grubby intersection ∑ ogdenmuseum.org in the city, Confederate
favored by homeless people. Memorial Hall offers a moving
Since the 1990s, however, it Opened in 2003, this museum experience. The memorabilia
has become the anchor of is named for Roger H. Ogden, on display tell the often tragic,
an attractive and growing a philanthropist who donated personal stories of the many
museum district. The Ogden the core collection of some young men who fought in
Museum of Southern Art 1,200 works by more than 400 the Civil War. Some were
opens on to the circle and Southern artists. The museum teenagers, like Landon Creek,
the National WW II Museum is displays its artworks in a two- who had fought in seven
just a block away. Meanwhile, building complex connected battles and was wounded
these additions have boosted by a corridor gallery. The three times by the age of
the regeneration of existing Romanesque-style Howard 15. Several display cases
museums nearby, such as the Memorial Library was designed contain objects relating
New Orleans Contemporary
Arts Center and the Confed-
erate Memorial Hall.
The statue of Robert E. Lee is
one of three prominent tributes
to Confederate leaders in New
Orleans, the others being of
Jefferson Davis and Gen. P. G. T.
Beauregard, located in separate
parts of Mid-City. However, the
city was not an especially
staunch rebel stronghold. It was
evenly split over the secession
issue, and it fell early in the Civil The Howard Memorial Library, now part of the Ogden Museum

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Date 1st October 2013
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