St. Charles Borromeo "Little Red Church"

The church survived its fires, but the parish nearly lost its standing. After an 1877 fire it was left without a pastor, and by 1890 it had lost the support of Archbishop Francis Janssens in a dispute over its charter and its wardens. The break lasted until 1917, when a parochial charter was adopted and Archbishop James Blenk restored the parish to the diocese. Four years later the Little Red Church burned for the last time. Its replacement was dedicated on January 25, 1922, white-fronted beneath a Spanish tile roof.

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

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