A Mortician

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A Mortician from Texas dedicated to the funeral profession, from funeral directing to exploring funeral homes, documenting cemeteries and mausoleums, and curating a collection of funerary antiques.

12/08/2025

Grammier-Oberle Funeral Home
2500 Procter Street, Port Arthur, Texas 77640
Status: Relocated; Building Sold
Postcard Collection of Steven R. Bailey

12/04/2025

I I liked the way the sky looked over the funeral home this evening as the sun was setting. The lighting was naturally perfect with no editing necessary.

Photograph by Funerary Collection of Steven R. Bailey

11/30/2025

The Former P. J. McMahon & Sons Funeral Home
4800 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70119
Established 1846; Defunct 2004

I passed by the former P.J. McMahon & Sons Funeral Home while touring nearby cemeteries on Canal Street a month ago. Though the interior was completely gutted after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the structure still stands today and is a haunted house, known as “The Mortuary.”

Photograph by Funerary Collection of Steven R. Bailey

11/29/2025

The Former P. J. McMahon & Sons Funeral Home
4800 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70119
Established 1846; Defunct 2004

Original newspaper archival photograph and clipping about the former P. J. McMahon & Sons Funeral Home. Though the interior was completely gutted after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the structure still stands today and is a haunted house, known as "The Mortuary."

Photography Collection of Steven R. Bailey

11/22/2025

Former E. J. Ranson & Sons, Inc. Funeral Home
1024 Elysian Fields Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70116

Photograph by Funerary Collection of Steven R. Bailey

11/22/2025

Selection Room
Jacob Schoen & Son Funeral Home
3827 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70119

Established 1874

While exploring New Orleans two weeks ago, I visited and toured the Jacob Schoen & Son Funeral Home. Most of the caskets on display are of wood selections.

Photograph by Funerary Collection of Steven R. Bailey

11/21/2025

J. Garic Schoen Chapel, 2016 Addition
Jacob Schoen & Son Funeral Home
3827 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70119

Established 1874

While exploring New Orleans two weeks ago, I visited and toured the Jacob Schoen & Son Funeral Home. The J. Garic Schoen Chapel was an addition completed in 2016, adjacent to the main funeral home structure.

An excerpt a 2016 article on New Orleans City Business:
“One of the biggest changes patrons will see is the new chapel in front of the main building facing Canal Street. The addition includes 5,000 square feet of space, and Schoen estimates it can hold 360 people, making it the largest chapel in New Orleans. The reason for this is Schoen did not build a crying room and instead put pews all the way to the back of the facility.

The Marianites of Holy Cross donated a hand-carved, wooden crucifix for the new chapel that hangs directly behind the altar. It stands 7-feet-tall and was originally at the old Academy of the Holy Angels in Bywater. The nuns are in the process of moving their congregation to Covington after selling the campus to a developer.”

Photograph by Funerary Collection of Steven R. Bailey

11/19/2025

Original Chapel: Pews vs. Chairs
Jacob Schoen & Son Funeral Home
3827 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70119

Established 1874

While exploring New Orleans two weeks ago, I visited and toured the Jacob Schoen & Son Funeral Home. I took the top photograph a year ago when touring Jacob Schoen & Son while in town during the 2024 NFDA Convention and took the bottom photograph of how the chapel appears now as of November 1, 2025. The pews had just been removed about a week prior.

Photograph by Funerary Collection of Steven R. Bailey

11/18/2025

Framed Architectural Photographs of
Jacob Schoen & Son Funeral Home
3827 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70119

Established 1874

While exploring New Orleans two weeks ago, I visited and toured the Jacob Schoen & Son Funeral Home. This frame depicts the different architectural stages of the funeral home structure over the years.

Photograph by Funerary Collection of Steven R. Bailey

11/17/2025

Main Entry Hallway
Jacob Schoen & Son Funeral Home
3827 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70119

Established 1874

While exploring New Orleans two weeks ago, I visited and toured the Jacob Schoen & Son Funeral Home. As you walk into the funeral home, you will find the main hallway with several parlor rooms on each side, and the staircase towards the end of the hallway, adjacent to the information office.

Photograph by Funerary Collection of Steven R. Bailey

11/16/2025

Welcome to Jacob Schoen & Son Funeral Home
3827 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70119

Established 1874

While exploring New Orleans two weeks ago, I visited and toured the Jacob Schoen & Son Funeral Home.

Video by Funerary Collection of Steven R. Bailey

11/16/2025

Jacob Schoen & Son Funeral Home
3827 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70119

Established 1874

While exploring New Orleans two weeks ago, I visited and toured the Jacob Schoen & Son Funeral Home.

My summary of history from the firm’s website is as follows:
Jacob Schoen and Henry Frantz established their funeral parlor at 155 N. Peters Street on March 4, 1874. The business soon outgrew the funeral parlor and in 1879, the firm moved to 527 Elysian Fields.

In 1897, Frantz sold Jacob Schoen his interest in Frantz and Schoen. Jacob Schoen took as his new partner his oldest son from his first marriage, Philip J. Schoen, and named the firm Jacob Schoen & Son.

In 1915, the Schoen & Molloy Funeral Home was founded in Covington and became Schoen Funeral Home, Inc. in 1955.

In 1935, the Schoen family acquired this beautifully landscaped and imposing funeral home. The building was originally built in the early 1890s as a residence. It was converted in 1931 for use as a funeral home as the National Funeral Home and was remodeled into a Romanesque/Spanish Revival style. Their goal was to build a chain of such funeral homes across the nation under the brand name National Undertakers, which failed. Eighteen months later, they sold the building to the E.J. Ranson Funeral Home, who operated it for a short time before selling the building to the Schoen family.

The main lobby and additional parlors were added in 1957, followed by the addition of the chapel ten years later in 1967. The building was carefully restored following Hurricane Katrina to retain that historic look and feel that so many New Orleans families have come to expect.

Some of the elegant furniture in the funeral home came from the former House of Bultman, a long time funeral home located at St. Charles Avenue and Louisiana Avenue, which closed in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina.

Photograph by Funerary Collection of Steven R. Bailey

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