New Orleans Architecture: Volume III: The Cemeteries

Quite possibly the most comprehensive architectural examination of any American city.
-Landscape Architecture Magazine

The tourist who does not visit at least one of the old cemeteries just a few blocks from the French Quarter misses an inimitable experience in sepulchral urban design.
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In New Orleans, cemeteries are known as cities of the dead. Because the city is located below sea level, buried coffins will not stay underground. As a result, residents bury their dead i...