There are many excellent books and articles featuring the history of New Orleans and St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, cemetery architecture and modern conservation theory. Below is a shortened bibliography. Longer, topical bibliographies can be downloaded as pdf files. Go there.

Short Bibliography

Anson-Cartwright, Tamara, ed. Landscape of Memories: A Guide for Conserving Historic Cemeteries. Toronto: Ministry of Citizenship, Culture and Recreation, 1997.

Ashurst, John et. al., Practical Building Conservation. English Heritage Technical Handbook, Vol. 4, New York: Halsted Press, 1988.

Ashurst, John and Nicola Ashurst. "Mortars, Plasters and Renders." Vol. 3, Practical Building Conservation. English Heritage Technical Handbook. New York: Halsted Press, 1988.

Brock, Eric J. Images of America: New Orleans Cemeteries. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Press, 1999.

Carter, Edward C. II, John C. Van Horne, and Lee W. Formwalt, eds. The Journals of Benjamin Henry Latrobe 1799-1820: From Philadelphia to New Orleans. New Haven: Yale University Press for the Maryland Historical Society, 1980.

Christovich, Mary Louise, ed. New Orleans Architecture, Vol. III—The Cemeteries. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing, 1974.

Durno, A.G. "Old Burial Places." Standard History of New Orleans. Edited by Henry Rightor, 256-266. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co. 1900.

Federal Writers' Project, The WPA Guide to New Orleans, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938.

Feilden, Bernard M. Conservation of Historic Buildings. Oxford: Architectural Press, 1994.

Florence, Robert. City of The Dead: A Journey Through St. Louis Cemetery #1. New Orleans: University of Southwestern Louisiana, Center for Louisiana Studies, 1997.

Gayle, Margot, David W. Look and John G. Waite. Metals in America's Historic Buildings: Uses and Preservation Treatments. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980.

Geerlings, Gerald K., Wrought Iron in Architecture: An Illustrated Survey. NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1983.

Gloag, John and Derek Bridgwater, A History of Cast Iron in Architecture. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1948.

Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania. Dead Space: Defining the New Orleans Creole Cemetery. Philadelphia: GSFA - University of Pennsylvania, np. June 2001.

Grimmer, Anne. Preservation Brief 22: The Preservation and Repair of Historic Stucco. Washington, D.C.: Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Technical Preservation Services, 1990.

Gurcke, Karl. Bricks and Brickmaking: A Handbook for Historical Archaeology. Moscow, ID: University of Idaho Press, 1987.

Hirsch, Arnold R. and Joseph Logsdon. Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1992.

Huber, Leonard V. New Orleans: A Pictorial History from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. New York: American Legacy Press, 1971.

Kemp, John R. New Orleans: An Illustrated History. Woodland Hills, CA: Windsor Publications, 1981.

King, Grace. New Orleans: The Place and The People. New York: Macmillan and Co., 1895.

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry Boneval. Impressions Respecting New Orleans: Diary & Sketches 1818 – 1820. Edited by Samuel Wilson, Jr, 115-125. New York: Columbia University Press, 1951.

Lemmon, Alfred E., ed. "The Southern Cemetery". Special issue. The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South, Vol. XXXI, No. 2, (Winter 1993).

London, Mark. Masonry: How to Care for Old and Historic Brick and Stone. Washington, D.C.: The Preservation Press, 1988.

Massari, Giovanni and Ippolito Massari. Damp Buildings Old and New. Rome:ICCROM, 1993.

Masson, Ann M. "Père La Chaise and New Orleans Cemeteries." The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South 31, no. 2 (Winter 1993).

Masson, Ann M. and Lydia H. Schmaltz. Cast Iron and the Crescent City, New Orleans: Louisiana Landmarks Society, 1995.

Matero, Frank G. et al. A Conservation Program for Louisiana's Above Ground Cemeteries. New York: The Center for Preservation Research, unpublished report, 1987.

Matero, Frank G., et al. St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 Guidelines for Preservation and Restoration. np, 2002. Go there.

Matero, Frank G., with Joel C. Snodgrass, "Understanding Regional Painting Traditions: The New Orleans Exterior Finishes Study." APT Bulletin 24 (1-2, 1992): 45-47.

McKee, Harley J. Introduction to Early American Masonry, Stone, Brick, Mortar and Plaster. Washington DC: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1973.

Records and Deliberations of the CABILDO, typescript by WPA, 1936.

Strangstad, Lynette. Preservation of Historic Burial Grounds. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, n.d.

Teutonico, Jeanne Marie. ARC A Laboratory Manual for Architectural Conservators. Rome: ICCROM, 1988.

Thompson, Sharyn, Joey Brackner and Alfred E. Lemmon. "Historic Cemeteries in the Southern United States: A Preliminary Bibliography." The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South. Vol. XXXI, No. 2, (Winter 1993).

Thompson, Sharyn and Lynette Strangstad. Florida's Historic Cemeteries, A Preservation Handbook. Tallahassee: Historic Tallahassee Preservation Board, 1989.

Torraca, Giorgio. Porous Building Materials: Materials Science for Architectural Conservation. Rome: ICCROM, 1981.

Upton, Dell. "The Urban Cemetery and the Urban Community: The Origin of the New Orleans Cemetery." In Exploring Everyday Landscapes: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture VII. Edited by A.Adams and S. McMurry. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997.

Vieux Carre Masonry Maintenance Guidelines. Revised from the initial report prepared by Mary L. Oehrlein in 1977. New Orleans: Vieux Carre Commission, 1980.

Waite, John G. Preservation Brief 27: The Maintenance and Repair of Architectural Cast Iron. Washington, D.C.: Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Technical Preservation Services, 1991.

Weaver, Martin E. Conserving Buildings, Revised Ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.

Weeks, Kay D. and Anne E. Grimmer, The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties with Guidelines for Preserving, Rehabilitating, Restoring & Reconstructing Historic Buildings, Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 1995.

Wilson, Samuel, Jr. and Leonard V. Huber. The St. Louis Cemeteries of New Orleans. New Orleans: St. Louis Cathedral, 1963, 1988, 2001.