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1515 Pauger Street
The only extant structure built by Rosette Rochen, the Musee stands at 1515 Pauger
Street in the Faubourg Marigny of the eastern edge of
the world-famed French... more
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417
Royal Street
Banque de la Louisiane
(Brennan's Restaurant). Vincent
Rillieux, great-grandfather of the artist
Edgar Degas, purchased the site a month after the great
fire of December 8,1794. more
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2016-2020 Burgundy
Street
Sun Oak, built around 1807 and renovated by 1836. Headquarters
for the education through HIstoric Preservation Program....
Photograph by Baron R. Augustine, Restoration... more
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1809-1811 Dauphine
Street
Built between 1833 and 1840 for Frenchman, Joseph
Sauvinet, as rental
property, this creole cottage retains its outbuilding
and all the characteristics that make it one of the
best examples in Marigny. Outstanding, common-wall brick
kitchens serve both 1809 Dauphine Street and... more
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632 St. Peter
Street
Madame Augustine Eugenie
de Lassize, the widow
of Louis Avart, whose upriver plantation was subdivided
as part of Uptown, had this creole storehouse built
in 1842 after J.N.B. DePouilly's designs, with Ernest
Godchaux as builder. The cast... more
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726 St. Peter Street
Preservation Hall. Antoine
Faisendieu bought a lot here from Guillermo
Gros in 1803 and built a tavern, selling it in 1809 to
Pierre and Barthelemy Jourdain.
A subsequent 1812 sale advertises a "house lately...
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933 St. Phillip
Dolliole House,
Architect Frank Masson and his wife Ann, bought the
Dolliole house in 1980 after it had been abandoned for
30 years, restoring the creole cottage... more
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1133 Chartres
Street
Joseph Soniat DuFossat house. Francois Boisdore, personne de couleur libre,
designed this as a two-and-one-half story creole townhouse
with... more
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339 Royal Street
Vincent Rillieux house (Waldhorn's Antiques). French emigre
architect Barthelemy Lafon
designed this storehouse about 1800 for Vincent Rillieux... more
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917 St. Ann Street
Raimond Gaillard,
free man of color and veteran of the Battle of New Orleans,
had this cottage built in 1824. A prosperous businessman,
Gaillard owned several other pieces of property in... more
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723 Toulouse Street
Valery Nicolas house. hilaire Boutet, a designer-builder, built this
two-story, four-bay creole post-Purchase house in 1808
during the Territorial period... more
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1428 Bourban Street
Laurent Ursain Guesnon, a free man of color and carpenter, bought the lot in 1807
and built the brick-between-post creole cottage soon after
his marriage in 1811... more
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1801 Dauphine Street
Charles Laveaux storehouse. The plastered-brick first floor of this two-story
corner storehouse was built before 1833 for free men of
color, Charles Laveaux... more
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2014-2016 Dauphine
Street
William Kinkaide, a free man of color, drew plans and built this row of
three creole cottages for Pierre
and Albert Hoa... more
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2018-2020 Dauphine
Street
William Kinkaide,
a free man of color, drew plans and built this row of
three creole cottages for Pierre
and Albert Hoa... more
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2022-2024 Dauphine
Street
William Kinkaide,
a free man of color, drew plans and built this row of
three creole cottages for Pierre
and Albert Hoa... more
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2340 Chartres Street
This house was designed and built in 1828 by Nelson
Fouche, a free man of color and architect-builder
who came from St. Domingue via Cuba... more
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1436 Pauger Street
Dolliole-Clapp house. Pauger Street was first named Bagatelle by Marigny,
and this small house is an ironic little trifle for the
visitor to enjoy. ... more
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1455-57 Pauger
Street
A modest cypress weatherboard-covered brick-between-post
creole cottage with a double-pitch roof, once slate, was
built by Joseph Prieto,
free man of color... more
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1613
Pauger Street
This is an unusual three-bay cottage with a Greek Revival
entrance leading to a side hall: the Greek Revival door
surround and the hall reveal Anglo-American... more
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1017
Esplanade
A somewhat different case of inheritance was that of Molly
Vernier, free woman of color, a slave emancipated by her
mistress, Mrs. Anna Duperron, widow of Philippe Vernier.
In her 1842 will, the widow revealed that she had been
born in... more
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529
and 533 Esplanade
Lucy Cheatam, another free woman of color involved
in the circumvention of inheritance laws, lived on a more
pretentious block than most of her counterparts in the... more
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