Our Mission
Founded in 1974, Save Our Cemeteries is dedicated to the preservation, promotion, and protection of the historic cemeteries of New Orleans through restoration, education, and advocacy.
Save Our Cemeteries is the ONLY non-profit organization in New Orleans dedicated to cemetery preservation, promotion, restoration, and education through tours, lectures and convenings in and about cemeteries.
Saturday, November 16, 10am
Join us as we stroll down memory lane and visit the resting places of numerous New Orleans’ citizens who with their foresight and monetary contributions established and evolved New Orleans’ City Park.
On this tour, you’ll learn more about the importance of City Park, and how it changed through the years and became an essential part of anyone who lives in New Orleans. Highlights include:
1. Sydney Besthoff and wife Walda (who is thankfully still with us) the founders of the New Orleans Museum of Art Besthoff Sculpture Garden, considered one of the best and most comprehensive in the United States
2. Isaac Delgado, Founder of New Orleans Museum of Art
3. Felix Dreyfous, who established the famous bridge near the "Casino” and the red pigeon house by the Dreyfous bridge
4. Harry Batt Sr, who has given us so many wonderful memories with Storyland, the Amusement Park, and the child-scale train that rides on real tracks.
5. Sara Hyams who donated the fountain and wading pool in front of the Amusement Park.
6. Diana Helis Henry and Adrienne Helis Malvin, founders of the Helis Foundation, which established gardens, fountains, the bandstand, playgrounds and the entrance which defines City Park to this day.
7. Peggy Read, Friends of City Park, which still raises crucial funds for the operations and maintenance of this essential park of New Orleans where so many family memories are made.
$35 Early Bird through November 1
$40 in Advance
Saturday, December 7 · 10am
New Orleans reputation around the world has always included its delicious and innovative cuisine. To this day, social media is filled with people visiting New Orleans just to dine here!
On this tour through internationally recognized Historic Metairie Cemetery, you’ll learn more about the people, their personalities and the culture that created the panoply of food, we call New Orleans Cuisine!
· Learn about the oldest restaurant, in the US that is still operating today, including its’ two undeniable legacies!
· Encounter a maker of international chefs and inventor of a very famous dessert.
· Understand better how cultures come together to make the best food.
· Be astounded by Al Copeland created a fast food empire from Cajun inspiration and how his very big personality endures to this day.
· Visit with entrepreneur Ruth Fertel, and how she turned a problem into a chain of restaurants.
· Be ready to learn more about the only restaurant that still requires gentlemen to wear jackets, so much so, they will provide one for you.
· Hear the story of a legacy of a humble Chinese Restaurant, the House of Lee
· Discover the story of the Brocato family, created most authentic Italian ice cream shops that still endures three generations later here in New Orleans.
Book Now through November 24 for early bird rate!
Save Our Cemeteries is inviting you to a field outing and orientation workshop, where you'll document St. Joseph's Cemetery No. 2 tombs and markers through photography and upload those to Find a Grave, a searchable database that documents burials world-wide.
We will provide a one-hour orientation on Saturday, and then venture out on Sunday morning.
This is an exciting opportunity to provide descendants, researchers, and our own community with information that can be accessed by anyone worldwide.
REGISTER NOW TO VOLUNTEER
Would you like a personal tour or have a group? Call us at 504-525-3377 or email tours@saveourcemeteries to schedule today.
Forbes called it one of "America's Best Cemeteries". Sundays at 10 am.
Sunday, December 8, 8:30am
Lafayette Cemetery No. 2
2110 Washington Ave, New Orleans
Save Our Cemeteries is inviting you to a field outing and orientation workshop, where you'll document Lafayette Cemetery No. 2 tombs and markers through photography and upload those to Find a Grave, a searchable database that documents burials world-wide.
We will provide a one-hour orientation on Saturday, and then venture out on Sunday morning.
This is an exciting opportunity to provide descendants, researchers, and our own community with information that can be accessed by anyone worldwide.
REGISTER NOW!
Tour both the historic Pitot House and St. Louis Cemetery No. 3. Thursdays and Fridays at 10 am.
Some of New Orleans' most notable names are interred here. Near City Park. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays at 10 am.
Visit this neighborhood-centric cemetery and chapel in historic St. Roch the first Friday of every month.
Founded in 1974, Save Our Cemeteries is dedicated to the preservation, promotion, and protection of the historic cemeteries of New Orleans through restoration, education, and advocacy.
