- Metairie Cemetery, in New Orleans, is one of those fascinating places that will capture your imagination even if you don’t have one!
- Our Metairie Cemetery tour presents New Orleans’ unique burial traditions and the variety of memorials that honor generations who have called New Orleans...
- Around 15 New Orleans cemeteries contain tombs built above ground. The main reason for such burials has to do with the city’s unique location.
- lakelawn-metairie-cemetery-graveyard-to-new-orleans-rich-and-powerful. Delgado Sarcophagus style tomb.
- Statuary in New Orleans' Metairie Cemetery. ... Of all the cemeteries in New Orleans, Lafayette exudes the strongest sense of subtropical Southern Gothic.
- The name has caused some people to mistakenly presume that the cemetery is located in Metairie, Louisiana; but it is located within the New Orleans city limits...
- After crowded, ornate, ancient St. Louis Cemetery #1, we visited sprawling, extra-ornate, slightly less ancient Metairie Cemetery at the end of the Canal Street line.
- While all New Orleans cemeteries stand out, Metairie Cemetery has the largest collection of marble tombs and funeral statuary in the Crescent City.
- The name has caused some people to mistakenly presume that the cemetery is located in Metairie, Louisiana, but it is located within the New Orleans city limits...
- Categories: Orleans Parish, Louisiana, Cemeteries | New Orleans, Louisiana. Name: Metairie Cemetery (also known as Lake Lawn Metairie Cemetery).