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Scroll right to see this wonderful panorama of the Crescent
City, viewed from the steeple of St. Patrick's Church, with Camp Street on the far left and the river on the far right. The
long row of buildings beginning at Camp
is the Julia St. Row, or the"Thirteen Sisters," designed by Alexander Thompson Wood in the 1830s. The
domed church at the corner of Julia and St. Charles is the Unitarian Church. The large church further on, backing on
Girod Street, is the First
Presbyterian Church, which faces Lafayette Square. Gallier Hall is just in front of it, on the St. Charles Avenue side of
the Square. Camp Street (which appears to curve around because of the perspective of the panorama) stretches on the
other side of Lafayette Square, and the square building across Camp Street is St.
Patrick's Hall (once the home of New Orleans Public Library). The spire of the St. Louis Cathedral is barely visible in
the curve of the river.
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