Founded in 1869 by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart on Chartres Street in the Vieux Carré, St. Aloysius College moved in 1892 to a building on Rampart Street, then in 1925 to a new building at the corner of Esplanade Avenue and Rampart Street, St. Aloysius closed in 1969 after one hundred years, as part of the founding of Brother Martin High School on Elysian Fields Avenue.