christ church

Christ Episcopal Church is the oldest building still in use in Covington, Louisiana -- it was built in 1846. It fits in with the character of the historic downtown with its narrow streets and old buildings. Quite a contast to the high-tech, state-of-the-art Emergency Operations Center housed in the "contemporary" court house built in 1959, which replaced the razed 1894 building and abandoned for the new government center in 2003. The "hanging" oak trees are still there.