Confederate Memorial Hall Museum

Confederate Memorial Hall Museum is a museum located in New Orleans which contains historical artifacts related to the Confederate States of America (C.S.A.) and the American Civil War. It is historically also known as "Memorial Hall". It houses the second-largest collection of Confederate Civil War items in the world, behind the American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia. The museum has been advertised as Louisiana's Civil War Museum and as Louisiana's Oldest Museum.

This article is about the museum in New Orleans. For so-called Confederate Embassy in Washington, D.C., see Confederate Memorial Hall. For the former Confederate Memorial Hall on the Vanderbilt University campus, see Memorial Hall, Vanderbilt University.

Confederate Memorial Hall Museum
Civil War museum in 2011
Location within East New Orleans
Confederate Memorial Hall Museum (Louisiana)
Confederate Memorial Hall Museum (the United States)
Established1891
Location929 Camp St
New Orleans, Louisiana
Coordinates29.943333°N 90.071389°W / 29.943333; -90.071389
TypeWar museum
Websiteconfederatemuseum.com
Confederate Memorial Hall
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Confederate Memorial Hall (circa 1900).
Arealess than one acre
Built1890
ArchitectSully, Thomas O.
Architectural styleRomanesque Revival
NRHP reference No.75000852
Added to NRHPJune 11, 1975

This "Adjunct of the Howard Memorial Library Association", according to Frank T. Howard's letter of 8 Jan. 1891, was placed in the "possession" the Board of Governors of the Louisiana Historical Association "to be set apart forever for the use of" that organization. Sully & Toledano designed the hall, which was completed in 1888, following the Richardsonian Romanesque style of the Howard Library designed by H.H. Richardson.

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