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Architect's drawing of the interior of St. Theresa of Avila Church, facing the altar.
Construction began in 1848.

Interior of St. Theresa of Avila Church, 1871

Interior of St. Theresa of Avila Church around 1995.

St. Theresa of Avila Church, Louise Day Nursery Building in the front.

Aerial photo of St. Theresa of Avila Church with the Louise Day Nursery Building in front, from St. Theresa of Avila Parish

From St. Theresa of Avila Parish:
In 1882, New Orleans mourned the death of Margaret Haughery, who had worked devotedly with Sister Regis to improve the life of orphans.
She had used her income from selling milk and from the D'Aquin Steam Bakery to help the New Orleans Female Asylum and
St. Vincent's Infant Asylum, as well as other orphanages in the city. Upon her death, citizens began to collect funds to erect a monument in her honor,
and the Sisters of Charity donated the triangle of ground in front of the asylum. There, in 1884, the first monument to a woman in the South,
depicting her in her characteristic pose as she sat on a chair, and orphan on her knee, was erected.