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Lombard Plantation and the Lombard House is located on the Mississippi River in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana. Named for Joseph Lombard pere, the purchaser of the plot of land for his son, the tract of land was acquired October 25, 1825. [1] In a series of transactions, the land was sold back to Lombard to improve the land for $7,500.
The house has had four major periods of construction and has been moved at least two times. [ 3 ] [ 8 ] Sometime prior to 1900, the house was moved to the Godchaux Sugar Mill. [ 3 ] On September 25, 1993, the house was moved from the former Reserve Plantation (less than one mile distance) to its location on 1628- Louisiana Highway 44 (also ...
This list of museums in New Orleans, Louisiana contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available ...
The first owner, Guillaume Benjamin Demézière Duparc, lived at the plantation for 4 years, dying in 1808, 3 years after the house was completed. His daughter Elisabeth married into the Locoul family. Generations later, Laura Locoul Gore, who was born in the big house in 1861, inherited the plantation after she had married and moved to New ...
Ashland Plantation, also known as the Belle Helene or Ashland-Belle Helene Plantation, is a historic building, built in 1841, that was a plantation estate and home of Duncan Farrar Kenner. Located in Darrow, Louisiana, in Ascension Parish. [2] The manor house is an example of antebellum Greek Revival architecture. [3]
Hotel Maison de Ville courtyard garden. Fountain in hotel's courtyard garden. The Hotel Maison de Ville is located in the French Quarter north of Jackson Square, in New Orleans, Louisiana. They consist of a historic hotel building (1800), a garden courtyard, and separate former slave quarters (1750s)—now cottages.
1740 - La Balize was destroyed in a hurricane. A new island arose which was called San Carlos. The village was built again on San Carlos. October 7–10, 1778 - La Balize was destroyed, but was rebuilt at this location. [1] July 25–28, 1819 - Ships anchored near La Balize suffered through a 24-hour gale, but only three were grounded.
Samuel and Emeranthe were married in 1806 in St. John the Baptist Church. The Hermanns had four children. They were Samuel, Jr., Louis Florian, Lucien, and Marie Virginie. Samuel worked as an agent and broker for plantation owners and New Orleans merchants. They moved to New Orleans in 1813 and lived in various houses in the French Quarter ...