717 Orleans / 732 Bourbon / 740 St. Ann. Old ballroom -- blue; other buildings on Orleans, Bourbon and St. Ann -- yellow : to : old ballroom -- blue; new hotel buildings -- orange. In 1965, after a prolonged preservation battle, the 2-story masonry structure known as the Orleans Ballroom was renovated and incorporated into new hotel construction, today called the Bourbon Orleans. The new building is subordinate to the historic ballroom structure on Orleans Street, which was constructed by the architect William Brand, following the design of B. H. B. Latrobe's ballroom that was destroyed by fire in 1816. For many years the Sisters of the Holy Family used as a convent and school the ballroom and other later buildings, the latter being torn to make room for the hotel. [N.B: The VCS transcriptions of the original, 1810 building contracts for the Orleans Theatre indicate the following contractors: William Brand - general contractor; Arsène La Carrière Latour - contractor; Louis Hubert - carpenter; Louis Houdon - decorator and painter; Nicolas Yves & Jean (John) Lapeyre - interior decorators; Guillaume (William) Malus - locksmith and blacksmith. Just months after completion of the Theatre, the Sept. 1816 fire destroyed all the buildings on this block of Orleans, including the original ballroom which had been built under the supervision of Henry Latrobe, son of Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe: the latter did not arrive in New Orleans until early in 1819.]