This area is the "Protestant section" of the Cemetery, a remnant of the city's denominational past. Though this section was reduced in density through the removal of burials to Girod Street Cemetery in 1806, and was reduced in size with the construction of Tremé (Marais) Street in 1822, this open space yet retains the open qualities that John H.B. Latrobe painted in his 1834 watercolor of the cemetery proper before the advent of later infill.