Architecture
St. Mark's Community Center
St. Mark's Community Center, a settlement house run by Methodist deaconesses, opened its doors in New Orleans in 1909 and continues to operate today.
Contemporary Period
Contemporary Period Index
Archaeology
St. Peter Street Cemetery
Thousands of New Orleans’s eighteenth-century residents are interred at the site of the St. Peter Street Cemetery in the French Quarter.
Government, Politics & Law
Stewart Butler
Stewart Butler was a pioneering LGBTQ+ activist who made an impact across the state and nation.
Architecture
Strand Theatre
Designed by New Orleans–based architect Emile Weil, the Strand Theatre opened in Shreveport on July 3, 1925.
Literature
Swamps in Literature, Film, and Folklore
Swamps have a unique place in the literature, film and folklore of Louisiana.
Art
Syndey Byrd
South Louisiana's musical traditions and Carnival celebrations fueled photographer Syndey Byrd's work for more than thirty years.
Foodways
Tabasco Sauce
Tabasco is a popular brand of pepper sauce products and related items manufactured by McIlhenny Company, a privately held, family-owned business headquartered on Avery Island, Louisiana.
1.8 f. Tabasco Sauce
This spicy sauce is made in Louisiana and sold around the world.
Music
Terence Blanchard
New Orleans–native Terence Blanchard is a multi-Grammy-winning, twice Oscar-nominated jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator.
Sports & Recreation
Terry Bradshaw
Louisiana's Terry Bradshaw won four Super Bowls as quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1970s.
Architecture
The National World War II Museum
From a converted nineteenth-century brewery in New Orleans’s Warehouse District, The National World War II Museum has grown to occupy a more than 240,000-square-foot campus designed by Voorsanger Architects.
Music
The Residents
The Residents are an anonymous experimental art collective encompassing a music group, art project, theater troupe, and social experiment that evades genre classification.
