The first non-Roman Catholic service in the Louisiana Purchase was held at the Cabildo on November 17, 1805, when Episcopal priest Philander Chase offered a service of Morning Prayer. Until the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory, the Cabildo, in Jackson Square in the French Quarter, was the seat of the Spanish Colonial government in New Orleans. (ENS Photo: Mary Frances Schjonberg)
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