The town council first met in its new hall, which it called the Casa
Capitular (Capitol House), in 1799 and continued to meet there until
Louisiana became an American territory. They met in the room called the
Sala Capitular (Capitol Room), which was the site for the Louisiana
Purchase transfers in 1803 and remained the principal meeting room for
the new American city council until the 1850s. The Baroness Micaëla Almonester
de Pontalba, the daughter of Almonester y Roxas and herself an infamous
figure in Louisiana history, proposed renovations to the Cabildo in the
1840s to match new construction on neighboring land she had inherited
from her father. At this time, an entire third story was added to the
building, and massive cast-iron gates were erected at the main entrance.
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 Native Americans - First Families
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