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Architecture of the New Orleans Sarcophagus Tomb

9/15/2019

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How were some of New Orleans' most beautiful tombs designed, and why?
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Detail of the Barelli tomb, St. Louis Cemetery No. 2 (Photo by Emily Ford)
The architecture of New Orleans cemeteries is as diverse and varied as the neighborhoods in which the cemeteries are set.  On one end of town, St. Vincent de Paul Cemetery grew from a peaceful field in the 1830s into a florid, tightly-packed garden cemetery full of Spanish and Italian inscriptions by the 1860s.  Far uptown, the Americans built Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 from a below-ground graveyard into a little city of stone tombs in the same period.  Between the two of them, the French-Creole cemeteries St. Louis No. 1 housed several generations of architecture within its walls decades before either Lafayette No. 1 nor St. Vincent de Paul were even conceived of.[1]
 
Each tomb’s design in each cemetery is an adaptation of myriad influences, determined through the eye and imagination of mostly vernacular builders.  Yet as is the case in all cemeteries, the appearance of the present is determined by what came before.  In this blog post, we examine how a single influence gained a dual life in the form of the New Orleans sarcophagus tomb.

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