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PUBLIC B UI LB IX G S.
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STATE HOUSE.
Formerly known throughout the country as the St. Louis Hotel, was built iu 1841, and was for many years one of tin- most famous hotels in the South. It was within the walls of this magnificent structure that the people of New Orleans entertained Henry Clay in the winter of 1812, in a style commensurate with the wealth and refinement of the then prosperous and hopeful Crescent City, and in its famous ball room, the Convention to frame a new State Constitution met iu 181.‘3, which embraced almost every mail of influence and talent iu Louisiana—
John R. Grimes, Pierre Soule, Roman, Downs, Eustis, Brent, Marigny, Conrad, and sucli other distinguished gentlemen, scholars, statesmen aud patriots. Its elegant rotunda was used as a Chamber of Commerce, Board of Brokers and Cotton Exchange room, as well as for the political meetings of the Whig and