Metairie Cemetery by Jeanette Boutall Woest

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Jeanette Boutall Woest was a New Orleans artist. Jean Metairie Cemetery gate by Jeanette Boutall Woest Painting of the "new" main gate at Metairie Cemetery by artist Jeanette Boutall Woest. The painting is dated March 1, 1966. Here's the THNOC caption: View of gates of Metairie Cemetery, showing columns, fountain in front of curved roadway, and Josie Arlington's rose-colored tomb in the background at left. This photo is of the current main entrance to the cemetery. When Charles T. Howard built the cemetery in 1872, the main gate stood at the corner of Metairie Road and Pontchartrain Boulevard. The cemetery...