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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYP7_faulkner-house_New-Orleans-LA.html
Here in 1925 William Faulkner, Nobel Laureate, wrote his first novel "Soldiers Pay.
This building was erected in 1840 by the widow of Jean Baptiste LaBranche on a site formerly occupied by part of the yard and buildings of the French Colonial p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYP6_commag-re-mercier-house_New-Orleans-LA.html
Erected about 1995 by Pedro Commg?re after an earlier house on this site was destroyed in the great fire of December 8, 1794.
In 1806 it was occupied in part by John Watkins, mayor of New Orleans and by Mr. Forstall's store.Sold by Pedro Commag…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYP5_avart-peretti-house_New-Orleans-LA.html
Erected 1842 as a two-story house for Mme. Augustine Eugenie de Lassize widow of Louis Robert Avart. J.N.B. de Pouilly and Ernest Goudchauz architect-buildersFrom 1906 through 1923 it was the residence and studio of the artist Achille Peretti.Duri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYP4_labranche-buildings_New-Orleans-LA.html
On this site in 1734 stood the residence of Fran?ois Fleuriau, Attorney General of the Superior Council of the French colony of Louisiana, a native of Rennes in Brittany. This building erected in 1840 as one of a group of eleven by Madame Mesasie …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYP3_david-bannister-morgan_New-Orleans-LA.html
On the eight day of January, 1815David Bannister MorganBrigadier General V.S.A.with 400 militia, held his position, called in the British official reports, "the flanking battery," and from which, to employ Gen. Jackson's own words "Jackson could h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYP2_victor-david-house_New-Orleans-LA.html
Erected in 1838 for Victor David, a native of Gascony, France, and his wife Ann Rabassa. David Sidle and Samuel Stewart, builders.Purchased and restored in 1925 as its clubhouse by Le Petit Salon, a ladies' literary group, one of the first to reco…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYP1_bosque-house_New-Orleans-LA.html
Built in 1795by Bartholome Bosque, a native of Palma; father of Suzette Bosque, third wife of Louisiana's first American governorW.C.C. Claiborneon this site stood the house of Don Bernardo de Galvez, Spanish Governor of Louisiana
1777-1785Sol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYOE_nicholas-bertoli-building_New-Orleans-LA.html
Erected 1842 by Samuel Holden and John Cuminger, builders for Nicholas Bertoli, grocer.Occupied as the Pacific Concert Salon, 1855-1876.Owned by the family of Jean Louis Tissot, 1876-1897.Its granite columns are typical of the 1840's Greek Revival…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYOD_girod-house_New-Orleans-LA.html
Erected in 1814 by Nicholas Girod
The two story wing facing St. Louis Street was built by his brother, Claude Francois Girod, about 1797.Nicholas Girod was the mayor of New Orleans from 1812 to 1815 and it is said that he offered his house as a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYOC_original-pierre-masperos-slave-exchange_New-Orleans-LA.html
Within this historic structures slaves were sold and Andrew Jackson met with the Lafitte Brothers and planned the defense for the historic and epic Battle of New Orleans. At this monumental battle the British surrendered to American troops command…