St. Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square, circa 1906.

There have been 4 churches built on this site. One of the churches which no longer stands perished in the great fire of 1788 in which 85% of the city burned to the ground. The present church is the result of a major renovation done around the 1850's. An interesting note, in 1794 when the walls of the cityís first cemetery were being demolished those bricks were used to build another St. Louis Cathedral. Today, architectural elements from our first city of the dead are now incorporated into one of the most significant landmarks surrounding the city of the living.