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Confederate Memorial Hall

Year
1891
Style
Romanesque Revival
City
New Orleans, LA
Confederate Memorial Hall
Photo: Nolabob, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Confederate Memorial Hall was completed in 1888 to a design by Sully & Toledano, built as an adjunct of the Howard Memorial Library Association per Frank T. Howard's letter of January 8, 1891, which placed it in the Louisiana Historical Association's care. It follows the Richardsonian Romanesque style of the neighboring Howard Library, designed by H.H. Richardson. The museum holds the second-largest collection of Confederate Civil War artifacts in the world, after the American Civil War Museum in Richmond.

the building

A collection of over 5,000 artifacts. The hall holds more than 5,000 historical artifacts, including the personal effects and uniforms of Confederate generals Braxton Bragg and P.G.T. Beauregard, along with more than 140 regimental and other C.S.A. flags.

the style

Sully & Toledano designed the hall in the Romanesque Revival style, deliberately following the Richardsonian Romanesque of the adjacent Howard Library, which H.H. Richardson had designed.

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the architect

Sully & Toledano designed Confederate Memorial Hall, completed in 1888, taking their cue from H.H. Richardson's Richardsonian Romanesque design for the neighboring Howard Library.

significance

Advertised as both Louisiana's Civil War Museum and Louisiana's Oldest Museum, it houses the second-largest Confederate Civil War collection in the world, behind only the American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a New Orleans Historical Landmark.

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