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St. Louis Hotel

New Orleans, Louisiana
· Site Active 1838-1862
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The luxurious St. Louis Hotel included a bank, ballroom, shopping arcade, and trading exchange. Six days a week, under the hotel's domed rotunda, auctioneers sold off land and goods as well as thousands of enslaved people.
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