Samuel Wilson, Jr. collection of St. Louis Cathedral papers, 1850-1851. - Samuel Wilson, Jr. collection of St. Louis Cathedral papers, 1850-1851.

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Samuel Wilson, Jr. collection of St. Louis Cathedral papers, 1850-1851.
Biographical Information
Established in 1720, the parish of St. Louis King of France was the only Catholic parish in New Orleans for more than 100 years. The church building was destroyed in a fire on Good Friday of 1788; for the next few years, the parish used the chapel of Charity Hospital. In 1793 the Diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas was established with the Cathedral planned for New Orleans. In 1794, the Cathedral was built in the Spanish colonial style. On December 8, 1794, another fire swept the city, but the new Cathedral of St. Louis was spared. During the French and Spanish regimes and for thirty years after the Louisiana Purchase, the Cathedral was the center of Catholicism in the city. During the middle of the 19th century the Cathedral underwent extensive restoration and remodeling.; Eugène Warburg was a Creole, free man of color, sculptor, and native of New Orleans. He was born a slave in 1825 to Daniel Warburg, a German-Jewish businessman, and Marie Rose, a Cuban slave; he and his mother were freed in a public act of 1830. He produced busts, statues, and tomb designs from a studio space in the French Quarter that he shared with his younger brother Daniel, also an artist. In 1852, after studying with a French artist named Philippe Garbreille, he moved to Paris. He was living in Rome at the time of his death in 1859.; Jules Lion (1810-1866) was a free man of color, portrait artist, painter of miniatures, lithographer, and daguerreotypist of Paris and New Orleans. He presented an exhibition of daguerreotypes in New Orleans in 1840, a year after Daguerre announced his invention. He died in New Orleans in 1866.; Samuel Wilson, Jr. (1911-1993) was an architect, architectural historian, educator, civic activist, and preservationist.
Date Created
1850 - 1851
Description
Two proposals submitted by New Orleans free people of color and artists to the members of the committee for the construction of St. Louis Church. Jules Lion offers to decorate the ceiling, the altar, and the pendentives. Eugene Warburg's proposal concerns the flooring of the Cathedral and its estimated costs; his letter is accompanied by an undated sketch of the proposed flooring pattern. In French.
Type of Resource
text
Size
2 items.
Language
French.
Source
The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, La., http://www.hnoc.org/
Digital Collection
Revealing an Unknown Past: Free People of Color in Louisiana and the Lower Mississippi Valley
Repository Collection
Samuel Wilson, Jr. Collection of St. Louis Cathedral Papers, MSS 166, Williams Research Center, The Historic New Orleans Collection.
Shelf Location
MSS 166, Folders 12 and 13
Contact Information
To enquire about ordering copies of these images, email louisquery@hnoc.org.
Rights
Physical rights are retained by the Historic New Orleans Collection. Copyright of the original material is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. Permission to reproduce this image must be requested through the repository that holds the original.
Preferred Citation
Samuel Wilson, Jr. Collection of St. Louis Cathedral Papers, MSS 166, Williams Research Center, The Historic New Orleans Collection.
Related Collections
A. Sampson letter introducing Eugène Warburg, 2008.0237.1, Williams Research Center, The Historic New Orleans Collection.
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