Saturday, February 5, 2011

NOLA’s Lafayette Cemetery






Grassy lanes and more spacious multi-vault, aboveground tombs


Fire engine detail

Philanthropy entombed, another example of a society tomb

Cross of stone

Cross of wrought iron



  1. Ohhhhhh. One of my favorite cities in the world. I loved the tombs, history and emotion live there. Ah, you've sparked sweet memories!

  2. How very interesting. Really! I've always been rather fascinated with the New Orleans cemetaries. The firehouse one is do interesting, I wonder...would the firemen be buried there, instead of with their famalies? How would that work?

  3. i have read so much about their cemeterys but have never seen them, not even in movies or photos. thanks for sharing you walk, these are very good.

  4. Thos are tremendous crypts, haven't seen anything like that in Scotland. And I love the cross of wrought iron.

  5. Ginny - Good question. Nothing I turned up in preparing the cemetery post covered the question of whether family members were also buried in society tombs. Will be on the lookout for info. There will probably me more NOLA visits in our future; and in the past, answers to my NOLA questions have sometimes come in unexpected circumstances in seemingly unrelated venues!