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street to fulfil a need for space steamboats until his death in
after the yellow fever epidemic 1931. Other denizens include
of 1853. Known as Greenwood P. B. S. Pinchback, a free man of
Cemetery, it was the first in New color who became Louisiana’s
Orleans to be built without a only black governor in 1872–3,
boundary wall. It is the site of and William C. C. Claiborne
the city’s first Civil War Memorial. (see p19), first governor of
Louisiana. David C. Hennessy,
the police chief who was
w Metairie Cemetery assassinated in 1891, also
has an impressive tomb.
5100 Pontchartrain Blvd. Map 1 B1.
Tel 486-6331. @ 40, 46.
Open 8am–5pm daily. 7
e Longue Vue
This is the most attractively
landscaped cemetery in House and Gardens
New Orleans, and the final Large and elaborate tombs in 7 Bamboo Rd. Map 1 A2.
resting place of many of its Matairie Cemetery Tel 488-5488. @ 34, 39.
bluebloods. In the 19th Open 10am–5pm Mon–Sat, 1–5pm
century, the city was the saloonkeeper who had Sun. Closed public hols. & 8 7
premier venue for horseracing, succeeded financially but = ∑ longuevue.com
and the Metairie Racetrack was scorned socially. He was
was the most famous. After the determined to avenge his Cotton broker Edgar Stern
Civil War, mismanagement wife, Mary, and designed this and his wife Edith Rosenwald,
afforded Charles T. Howard the tomb so that in death she heiress to the Sears fortune,
opportunity to take revenge could look down on all those established this estate between
on the racetrack members who who had snubbed her. 1939 and 1942. The interiors
had refused him admission. The tomb of legendary are exquisitely decorated
He purchased it in 1872 and madam Josie Arlington bears with antiques, Oriental car pets
converted it into a cemetery. a bas-relief of a young girl and fine art, including works
The oval racecourse became knocking on a door. Orphaned by Jean Arp, Pablo Picasso,
the cemetery’s main drive. at the age of four, Josie went and Barbara Hepworth. The
Many magnificent tombs into business for herself as a gardens, which contain 23
are located here, and near teenager. She became a fountains created by Ellen
the entrance stands the notorious whore and brawler, Biddle, are exceptional
massive 85-ft (26-m) high and once bit off half an ear examples of landscape design.
Moriarty monument, which and the lower lip of a The largest garden is modeled
required the laying of a special fellow prostitute. on Spain’s 14th-century
railroad to bring it into the A large bell from his boat Alhambra gardens; others
cemetery. Daniel Moriarty America marks the grave of are inspired by French and
was an Irish immigrant and Captain Cooley, who ran several English designs.

The Entrance Court leading up to Longue Vue House

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