Placing the doors and windows parallel creates a cross ventilation, forcing warm interior air out and cool outside air in. October 9, , designation of the convent as a National Historic Landmark. Home Contact. Museum at the Old Ursuline Convent. Join our mailing list please enter your email address below. Louis Cathedral All Rights Reserved. The French nuns who arrived here in shared their deep Catholic faith, healed the sick and prayed for victory during the Battle of New Orleans.
The wooden stairs show the wear of nearly three centuries, with a dip on the sides and edges of each step. The staircase takes you up and down the three floors of the Old Ursuline Convent in the French Quarter. The current structure dates to The nuns sleep on sandbars on their five-day journey upriver to the settlement at New Orleans.
But the newly arrived nuns insist that they will not run a hospital in the young French colony until the French leadership builds a convent. The nuns hold out for seven years until the convent is completed. Designed By Christopher Crawley Friedrichs. Designation National Register of Historic Places. National Historic Landmark. Location and Nearby Landscapes. Nearby Landscapes. Media Gallery. Related Content City Guide.
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