Abraham plans to restore the former Orleans Ballroom and build a hotel. John Berchman’s Asylum for Negro Girls, as well as a courtyard and playground for the orphanage-the site of the current courtyard and pool of the Bourbon Orleans Hotel.īy the 1960s, the Sisters of the Holy Family grows to over 400 nuns and sells the property in 1964 to move to a larger convent with expanded facilities in New Orleans East, where they are located today. The growing order is then quick to purchase an adjacent lot and builds an orphanage for girls called St. In 1881 the Sisters of the Holy Family-the first African-American religious order in the United States, founded by Henriette DeLille in 1842-purchases the former Orleans Ballroom and converts the building into a convent: a motherhouse and school for African American girls called St. By 1881, both the Orleans Theater and Ballroom are acquired by the Sisters of the Holy Family for use as a school, orphanage, and convent, where they remained for 83 years. In 1866 a fire sweeps through the area, destroying the Theatre but sparing the Ballroom.
The 1,300 seat Theatre quickly places New Orleans on the map as the opera capital of the United States throughout the nineteenth century, as well as the most important venue for Creole society and the setting for the most select affairs in New Orleans. Even State Legislature and First District Court sessions.
Prestigious European operas, masquerade balls, carnival balls. In 1817, entrepreneur John Davis purchases the land and re-builds the Orleans Theatre and adds the Orleans Ballroom, designed by British-born architect Henry Latrobe, designer of the U.S. Construction actually begins on the original Théâtre d’Orléans in 1806, but the War of 1812 delays the opening until 1815, and is then completely destroyed by fire in 1816. Before becoming the setting for European operas and entertainment for Creole society in New Orleans, the Orleans Theatre has a rocky start.
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