Saint Charles Borromeo Church

This ground held more than a church. In 1929 the parish opened an elementary school, described as the first parochial school between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, and the building still stands. A convent went up the same year, and the rectory was rebuilt on an elevated ground level. St. Charles Borromeo High School opened here in 1948, run by the Sisters of the Congregation of the Immaculate Conception. The Sisters of the Most Holy Sacrament took it over in 1960, and in 1978 it moved to LaPlace and became St. Charles Catholic High School.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Destrehan Plantation — 0.7 mi
  A River Road house begun in 1787 where, in January 1811, a tribunal of five slaveholders tried people who had risen on the German Coast, and where an exhibit now tells the revolt.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 17 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.
• Whitney Plantation — 18 mi
  A museum on a former sugar plantation along the River Road that tells its story through the people who were enslaved there, with memorials to 107,000 enslaved Louisianans and 2,200 children.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 18 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.

More markers nearby

• Inside Church of St. Charles Red Church — steps away
• Ormond Plantation — steps away
• Watercolors — steps away
• St. Charles Borromeo "Little Red Church" — steps away