Liberty Place

Site of a bloody skirmish fought in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 14 September 1874 between agents of the Reconstruction government and supporters of the White League, intent on opposing slave emancipation. The White supremacists briefly gained control of the city; a monument to mark their temporary victory stood here from 1891 until city authorities removed it in 1989. Liberty Place is also the name of two high-rise office blocks built in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1987 and 1989. These were the first buildings in the city to break the traditional edict that no structure should stand taller than City Hall.