First Unitarian Universalist Church

Theodore Clapp was born in Easthampton, Massachusetts, in 1792, graduated from Yale and became pastor of New Orleans's First Presbyterian Church in 1822. He was named president of Orleans College in 1824 and adopted Unitarian views in 1834, then kept preaching in the same building, which belonged to Judah Touro. Clapp defended slavery publicly at first and by 1849 considered it sinful, though he still opposed abolitionism. He nursed the sick through repeated epidemics, resigned in 1857 when his health failed and his church burned, and died in Louisville in 1866.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 1.7 mi
  The Garden District's 1833 cemetery of about 1,100 family tombs, closed to visitors in 2019 and reopened on October 1, 2026 for small guided tours run by the Preservation Resource Center.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 2.6 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 2.8 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 2.8 mi
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.

More markers nearby

• First Presbyterian Church — steps away
• Newcomb Pottery Garden — 0.7 mi
• H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College — 0.8 mi
• Carrollton Cemetery No. 1 — 0.9 mi