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NEW ORLEANS ILLUSTRATED.
Democratic parties, or for those of charitable or other purposes. This time-honored building, around which so many ennobling and pleasing memories cluster, lias for several years been used as a State House. The building is on St. Louis street, between Chartres and Royal.
CITY HALL.
Cornei’ St. Charles and Lafayette streets, contains the different municipal business rooms, Treasuser’s office, Lyceum and Library, etc. It is a large, com-
City Hall.
modious and handsome structure of brick, marble and stone. The front is of the Grecian Doric order, and remarkable for the graceful beauty of its stately columns.
NEW MASONIC HALL,
of which the foundation aud corner stone alone are laid, will, when completed, be one of the finest and most beautiful in our city. It will front on St. Charles street, just above Lee Place, and be of large dimensions, having a front of 147 feet, depth 92 feet, and two wings 38 feet wide by 84 feet deep.
The corner stone was laid on February 15, 1872, with all the solemn and imposing rites of Masonic ceremonies. It is a beautiful block of granite from the mountains of Georgia, a present from the Grand L )dge of that State. The Masonic Grand bodies, and many of the Lodges, occupy the old Masonic Ilall on St. Charles street, opposite Commercial Place.
COURT BUILDINGS (Former! u St. Patrick’s Hall).
Corner of Camp aud Lafayette streets, built for the St. Patrick’s Hall Association was added to the fine buildings of our city, within the last few years, the corner stone being laid March 17, 1874. The building, is one of the most elegant and spacious in the South. Its spacious halls are now occupied as court rooms.