Statue

Margaret's statue

Stereoview of "Margaret's Place" by Mugnier.
7/13/1884 Morning Star & Catholic Messenger (New Orleans weekly newspaper)
Newspaper article about Margaret Gaffney Haughery

The unveiling of Margaret's Statue last Wednesday was an event of which humanity has a right to be proud. We are said to live in a sordid age--
an age of money making and money worship--Ring Men appear to fix their admiration on the splendors of the world as set off and enhanced by the trappings of wealth and luxury.
Talent without bank account behind it is at a freesing discount, and even beauty is not recognized unless bedecked with diamonds and endorsed with the approval of greenback "Society."
To judge from the outward ways of men, those to whom they pay homage now and to whom they will afterwards raise monuments are they who shine most as stars in social life or as magnates in the world of finance.

But here comes nature to the rescue, in this instance of Margaret's Monument, and asserts its inherent admiration, now as much as ever,
for whatever is great and good, rather than for the frivolous, the gaudy, and the superficial. Margaret's good deeds have found an echo in the public heart which the
splendors of art and eloquence have failed to awaken; her self-sacrifice has called forth a monument that shall teach her name to far off generations,
when the great and the mighty who lived for themselves and their own interests will be covered with the dust of oblivion.

Statue washed as beautification campaign opens in August, 1936.

Margaret's statue located in the maze of the Camp Street upramp, Camp and Prytania streets in 1973.

Margaret sits atop pedestal as crane and heavy machinery mop-up after the removal of Camp Street ramp, 1995.

Phyllis Tudor takes scrapings of Margaret Haughery's shawl to plan a solution for cleaning and restoration.

Celebrating the installation of the iron fence around Margaret's statue, donated by Waldemar S. Nelson and Co.