The Cabildo

The Cabildo is a standout amongst the most verifiably critical structures in America. Worked in the vicinity of 1795 and 1799 to supplant a structure that consumed in the 1794 fire, the Cabildo filled in as the seat of government in New Orleans amid the Spanish pilgrim time frame.This single, bloodless act about multiplied the extent of the United States at the time, and it opened the regions west of the Mississippi River for investigation, extension, and settlement.

From 1803-1812 the Cabildo was utilized by the Louisiana Territorial Superior Court. After Louisiana turned into a state in 1812, the building kept on being utilized by the New Orleans City Council until the point that the mid-1850s when Gallier Hall opened on St. Charles Avenue.