Additional Resources

Digital Resources

Archival Resources

  • Mary Louise Christovich Papers (MSS 565), accessible at the Williams Research Center. http://hnoc.minisisinc.com/thnoc/catalog/3/9769:
    • Box 37: slides of a number of cemeteries
    • Box 54: Tina Freeman cemetery photographs
    • Box 62: Save Our Cemeteries documents
    • Box 63: information on work done in St. Louis No. 2 as part of the wall-vault project
    • Box 64: documentation of Sam Wilson’s work in Lafayette No.1, and the addition of St. Louis No. 1 and No. 2 to the National Register of Historic Places
    • Boxes 65–72: Save Our Cemeteries documents
    • Box 91: slides of various cemeteries
    • Box 116: Lafayette No. 1 restoration records and drawings for cemetery book.
  • Guide to Genealogical Materials in the New Orleans Public Library’s Louisiana Division and City Archives
    http://nutrias.org/~nopl/guides/genguide/burialrecords.htm
  • Research Resources for New Orleans Area Cemeteries: A Guide Prepared for the Louisiana Historical Center at the Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans
    https://www.crt.state.la.us/Assets/Museum/collections/historiccenter/library/New_Orleans_Area_Cemetery_Resource_Guide.pdf
  • The Louisiana Historical Center WPA Tombstone Index, New Orleans Cemeteries: Cemetery surveys compiled by the Works Progress Administration during the 1930s. Available at the Louisiana Historical Center at the Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans.
  • Archdiocese of New Orleans Office of Archives and Records: Sacramental records, including funeral and interment records
    https://nolacatholic.org/archives-and-records

Print Resources

  • Brady, Patricia. “Free Men of Color as Tomb Builders in the Nineteenth Century.” In Cross, Crozier, and Crucible: A Volume Celebrating the Bicentennial of a Catholic Diocese in Louisiana, edited by Glenn R. Conrad, 478–88. New Orleans: Archdiocese of New Orleans in cooperation with the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1993.
  • Brady, Patricia. “Florville Foy, F.M.C.: Master Marble Cutter and Tomb Builder.” The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of Arts in the South 31, no. 2 (Winter 1993): 8–20.
  • Brantley, Robert S. Sacred Ground: The Cemeteries of New Orleans. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2019.
  • Carey, Joseph S. Saint Louis Cemetery Number One (souvenir booklet). New Orleans: [St. Louis Cathedral], 1956.
  • Cassimere, Raphael, D. Clive Hardy, and Joseph Logsdon [et. al]. History of St. Louis II Cemetery. New Orleans: New Orleans NAACP, 1980.
  • Christovich, Mary Louise, Leonard V. Huber, and Peggy McDowell. New Orleans Architecture Vol. III: The Cemeteries. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing, 1974.
  • Christovich, Mary Louise. “Travail, Is Thy Name Preservation? The Why and the How of Save Our Cemeteries.” The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of Arts in the South 31, No. 2 (Winter 1993): 123–132.
  • Clark, Sandra Russell. Elysium: A Gathering of Souls: New Orleans Cemeteries. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997.
  • Curtis, Stephen O’Ryan. “ Louis I Cemetery, New Orleans: Transitional Composite Metalwork (19th C).” Master’s thesis in Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
  • Federal Writers’ Project. “Cemeteries.” In The WPA Guide to New Orleans, 186–98. New York: Pantheon Books, 1983. First published 1930 by Houghton Mifflin (Boston).
  • Florence, Robert. City of the Dead: A Journey through St. Louis Cemetery #1, New Orleans, Louisiana. Lafayette, LA: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1997.
  • Florence, Robert, and Mason Florence. New Orleans Cemeteries: Life in the Cities of the Dead. New Orleans: Batture Press, 1997.
  • Laughlin, Clarence John. “Cemeteries of New Orleans.” Architectural Review 103 (Feb. 1948): 47–52.
  • Lemmon, Alfred E., ed. “The Southern Cemetery.” Special issue, The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South, 31, no. 2 (Winter 1993).
  • Masson, Ann M. “Père La Chaise and New Orleans Cemeteries.” The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of Arts in the South 31, no. 2 (Winter 1993): 82–97.
  • “De Pouilly Brings Parisian Avant-Garde Architecture to New Orleans.” Preservation in Print 22, no. 8 (October 1995): 26–28.
  • Masson, Ann M., and Lydia H. Schmaltz. Cast Iron and the Crescent City. New Orleans: Louisiana Landmarks Society, 1995. Reprint, New Orleans: Pelican Publishing, 2012.
  • Matero, Frank G., Stephen Curtis, John Hinchman, and Judy Peters. Louis Cemetery No. 1: Guidelines for Preservation and Restoration. Philadelphia: Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
  • McDowell, Peggy. “J. N. B. de Pouilly and French Sources of Revival Style Design in New Orleans Cemetery Architecture.” Cemeteries and Gravemarkers, Voices of American Culture, ed. Richard E. Meyer. Ann Arbor: UMI research Press, (1989): 137-159.
  • Nakagawa, Tadashi. “The Cemetery as a Cultural Manifestation: Louisiana Necrogeography.” PhD diss, Louisiana State University, 1987.
  • Nance, Cindy Ann. “Out of Sight, Out of Mind: A GIS Study of Changes in Cemetery Locations in Southeastern Louisiana from an Archaeological and Geographical Perspective, 1930-1997.” PhD diss., Louisiana State University, 1999.
  • Peters, Judith A. “Modeling of Tomb Decay at St. Louis Cemetery No. 1: The Role of Material Properties and the Environment.” Master’s thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
  • Thompson, Sharyn, Joey Brackner, and Alfred E. Lemmon. “Historic Cemeteries in the Southern United States: A Preliminary Biography.” The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of Arts in the South 31, no. 2 (Winter 1993): 133–146.
  • Upton, Dell. “The Urban Cemetery and the Urban Community: The Origin of the New Orleans Cemetery.” In Exploring Everyday Landscapes: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture VII, edited by Annmarie Adams and Sally McMurry. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997.
  • Transcription [of] Baptismal, Marriage and Death Records of Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1849–1900. New Orleans, [1948?]. [Available on FamilySearch.org: https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/471481-redirection]
  • Wilson, Samuel Jr. F.A.I.A. and Leonard V. Huber. The Saint Louis Cemeteries of New Orleans (republished as Louis Cemetery #1). New Orleans: St. Louis Cathedral, 2001, ©1963.
  • Woods, Earl C., Charles E. Nolan, and Dorenda Dupont, eds. Sacramental Records of the Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. New Orleans: Archdiocese of New Orleans, 1987–2004.