Note 247 — Chapter XVI

The first Protestant congregation in New Orleans was the Christ Protestant Episcopal Church. It was organized in the autumn of 1805, but did not erect a building until 1816. No other Protestant organization existed in the city until the efforts of Rev. Elias Cornelius, of Connecticut, led to the formation (1818) of a Presbyterian congregation under the pastorate of Rev. Sylvester Larned, a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary. The building referred to in the text was erected by his congregation and its friends in 1819, on St. Charles Street, between Gravier and Union streets. It was destroyed by fire in 1851.—Ed.