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Orleans Parish Landmarks

Commission Records

SOUTHEASTERN ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVE

COLLECTION 65

Angela Gregory, Samuel Wilson, Jr., Leonard V. Huber, and Reverend Charles O’Neill, S.J. with the OPLC plaque

placed on New Orleans founder, Jean Baptiste LeMoyne, Sieur de Bienville’s residence in Paris, France. 1968.

SCOPE and CONTENTS

Research notes, correspondence, and some photographs

1956 – 2016

6 boxes

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Records of the Orleans Parish Landmarks Commission, a New Orleans preservation organization.

Chartered by the Louisiana Legislature in 1957, the OPLC designated historic structures in Orleans

Parish and marked them with plaques describing their history and significance. The records include

write-ups for plaques, research notes, and original photographic negatives showing many of the

completed plaques after installation.

PROVENANCE

Records were given by the Orleans Parish Landmarks Commission to Tulane in 1985. Additions

are given on an irregular basis.

ACCESS

This collection is housed in Tulane University Libraries’ Southeastern Architectural Archive

(SEAA) and requires an advance appointment for use. For further information, call

(504) 865-5699, or email seaa@tulane.edu. The unauthorized use, including, but not limited to,

publication of the materials without the prior written permission of the Southeastern Architectural

Archive is strictly prohibited. All inquiries regarding permission to publish should be submitted in

writing. Please see our Permission to Publish Guidelines.

PREFERRED CITATION

Orleans Parish Landmarks Commission Records, Southeastern Architectural Archive, Special

Collections Division, Tulane University Libraries.

INVENTORY Correspondence, plaque information, research notes, photographs, etc.

Box 1.

Folder 1.

1956 – 1957.

Folder 2.

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1958 – 1959.

Folder 3.

1960 – 1961.

Folder 4.

1962 – 1963.

Box 2.

Folder 1.

1966 – 1967.

Folder 2.

1968 – 1969.

Folder 3.

1970 – 1972.

Folder 4.

1973 – 1975.

Folder 5.

1976 – 1982.

Box 3.

Folder 1.

1983 – 1986.

Folder 2.

St. Anna’s Asylum.

Bank of Louisiana.

Blaffer House.

Short House.

Confederate Memorial Hall.

Conley House.

Fairgrounds.

Folder 3.

Factors’ Row.

Faulkner House.

First Homestead.

Goldstein-Freret House.

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Gumbo Shop.

Hurst-Stauffer House.

Torre House.

Old Mint.

Folder 4.

St. George’s Episcopal.

Jackson statue lettering.

Madame John’s Legacy.

McDonogh #7.

Merieult House.

First Street, 1239.

Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Rayne Memorial Methodist Church.

Tulane University.

Waldhorn-Moses House.

Box 4.

Folder 1.

Avart-Peretti House.

Patrick Joyce House.

Trinity Church.

Sophie Newcomb Memorial College.

Toole-Hecker House.

Folder 2.

Benjamin House.

Le Petit Salon.

Latrtobe’s Waterworks.

Julia Row.

Touro Synagogue.

Folder 3.

Judge John Howard Ferguson House.

Southern Yacht Club.

St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church.

Alfred Grima House.

Thomas Sully House.

Adam Graner House.

Huey P. Long House.

Gilmour-Parker House.

Folder 4.

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Gabriel Peyroux House.

Nicholas Bertoli Building.

Mayor Martin Behrman House.

Jean Adrien Delpit House.

Campanel Cottage.

Box 5.

Folder 1.

Cucullu Row.

Thomas Poree House.

Site of First U.S. District Court.

Daquin Bakery.

The Hedgewood.

Jazz.

St. Alphonsus Church.

Pecquet Building.

Dominique Bouligny House.

Folder 2.

1998 – 1999.

Folder 3.

2000 – 2013.

Folder 4.

OPLC meeting minutes, 1985 – 2009.

Box 6.

OPLC photographs.

Inventory of Buildings with OPLC Plaques. Listed Chronologically.

Inventory was compiled by John Geiser, III, and created by Marjorie Geiser Thomas, 2016.

Buildings and sites marked by the Orleans Parish Landmarks Commission.

1. 5/19/1957 Old Spanish Custom House 1300 Moss Street

2. 6/4/1957 Bradish Johnson House 2343 Prytania Street

3. 12/15/1957 Simon Meilleur House 1418 Gov. Nicholls

Street

4. 3/16/1958 Bartholome Bosque House 619 Chartres Street

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5. 3/30/1958 LeCarpentier-Beauregard-Keyes House 1113 Chartres Street

6. 6/21/1958 Mayor Nicholas Girod House 504 Chartres Street

7. 5/4/1958 Jean Baptiste Thierry House 721 Gov. Nicholls

Street

8. 5/17/1959 Henry Sullivan Buckner House 1410 Jackson Avenue

9. 11/29/1959 Cyprien Dufour House 1705 Esplanade

Avenue

10. 3/6/1960 Bringier-Barnett House 606 Esplanade

Avenue

11. 4/3/1960 Hermann-Grima House 820 St. Louis Street

12. 5/15/1960 Colonel Robert H. Short Villa 1448 Fourth

Street

13. 7/1961 James Gallier, Jr. House 1132 Royal Street

14. 1961 Plique-LaBranche House 730 St. Peter Street

15. 1961 LaBranche Buildings 627½ St. Peter Street

16. 10/25/1961 Site of First Louisiana School 617-619 St. Ann

Street

17. 12/20/1961 Jackson Square Chartres Street gate

18. 12/1961 Captain Thomas P. Leathers House 2027 Carondelet

Street

19. 5/27/1962 Old Ursuline Convent 1100 Chartres Street

20. 8/1962 W. C. C. Claiborne House 2111 Dauphine Street

21. 11/11/1962 Henry Rice House 3643 Camp Street

22. 11/18/1962 Grace King House 1749 Coliseum Street

23. 12/2/1962 Henry Morton Stanley House 904 Orange Street

(moved in 1981 to 1729 Coliseum Street)

24. 4/28/1963 Gardette-Le Pretre House 716 Dauphine Street

25. 10/13/1963 Orue-Pontalba House 616 St. Peter Street

26. 4/1964 Lower Pontalba Building St. Ann at Chartres

27. 4/1964 Jean Francois Merieult House 533 Royal Street

28. 6/26/1964 Banks’ Arcade 336 Magazine Street

29. 8/22/1965 Loge La Perseverance 901 St. Claude (now

in Armstrong Park)

30. 10/17/1965 Holy Trinity Cathedral (Greek Orthodox) 1222 N. Dorgenois

Street

31. 1/15/1966 Lavinia C. Dabney House 2265 St. Charles

Avenue

32. 2/14/1966 St. Mary’s Assumption Church 2052 Constance Street

33. 3/1966 John I. Adams House 2423 Prytania Street

34. 5/4/1966 D. H. Holmes Co., Ltd. 819 Canal Street

35. 6/14/1966 The Presbytere 751 Chartres Street

36. 12/4/1966 Gallier Hall 545 St. Charles

Avenue

37. 1/15/1967 Upper Pontalba Building St. Peter at Chartres

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38. 5/2/1968 Francois Seignouret House 520 Royal Street

39. 5/4/1968 Boimare-Mccarty House 509-511 Royal Street

40. 5/7/1968 Cathedral of St. Louis, King of France Chartres St. at

Jackson Square

41. 7/25/1968 Residence of Jean Baptiste LeMoyne, 17 Rue Vivienne,

Sieur de Bienville Paris

42. 9/8/1968 Port Pontchartrain Lighthouse Lake Pontchartrain at

the end of Elysian Fields Ave.

43. 11/1968 Board of Trade Plaza 316 Magazine Street

44. 12/29/1968 Susan Hackett House 2336 St. Charles

Avenue

45. 2/25/1969 Louis Moreau Gottschalk Memorial Municipal

Auditorium

46. 5/18/1969 Mortuary Chapel 401 North Rampart

Street

47. 1/25/1970 Paul Pandely House 1001 Barracks Street

48. 4/28/1970 Lafayette Cemetery Number One 1400 Washington

Avenue

49. 10/18/1970 The Cabildo 701 Chartres Street

50. 1971 Banque de la Louisiane 417 Royal Street

51. 4/1972 Christ Church Cathedral 2901 St. Charles

Avenue

52. 3/17/1974 Theodule Martin House 4422 Coliseum Street

53. 6/1974 Judge Joseph Calvitt Clarke House 1620 Eighth Street

54. 8/1974 John Gauche House 704 Esplanade

Avenue

55. 1976 Madame John’s Legacy 632 Dumaine Street

56. 1976 William Faulkner House 624 Pirates Alley

57. 1976 Fair Grounds Gate House 1751 Gentilly Blvd.

58. 1976 Mayor James Pitot House 1440 Moss Street

59. 1976 Captain Le Verrier Cooley House 5526 Chestnut Street

60. 1976 The Bank of Louisiana 334 Royal Street

61. 1977 Confederate Memorial Hall 929 Camp Street

62. 1977 McDonogh School Number Seven 1111Milan Street

63. 1977 Rayne Memorial Methodist Church 3900 St. Charles

Avenue

64. 1978 McDonogh School Number Six 923 Napoleon Avenue

65. 1978 John T. Moore, Jr. House 1309 Felicity Street

66. 1978 First Street United Methodist Church 2309 Dryades Street

67. 1978 Albert Hamilton Brevard House 1239 First Street

68. 1979 Touro Row 301-311 St. Charles

Avenue

69. 1979 John Agustus Blaffer House 1328 Felicity Street

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70. 1979 Factors Row 802-822 Perdido

Street

71. 1980 Gibson Hall of Tulane University 6823 St. Charles

Avenue

72. 1981 Cornelius Hurst House 3 Garden Lane

73. 1981 Rillieux-Waldhorn Building 343 Royal Street

74. 1982 St. Anna’s Asylum 1823 Prytania Street

75. 1982 Whitney Nat. Bank Safety Deposit Vaults 619 Gravier Street

76. 1982 Nicholas M. Benachi House 2257 Bayou Road

77. 1983 United States Mint 400 Esplanade

Avenue

78. 1984 Commagere-Mercier House 630 St. Peter Street

79. 1984 Schreier-Edisen Building 322 Lafayette Street

80. 5/16/1985 Christian Roselius House 515 Broadway

81. 5/29/1985 Byerly-McGraw House 1437 Eighth Street

82. 6/4/1985 Archibald Bouleware House 1531 Camp Street

83. 8/1985 First Presbyterian Church 5401 S. Claiborne

Ave.

84. 10/14/1985 Frances Benjamin Johnston House 1132 Bourbon Street

85. 10/17/1985 de la Ronde House 1021 Chartres Street

86. 11/15/1985 Newcomb Pottery Building 2828 Camp Street

87. 12/12/1985 Mayor Isaac W. Patton House 1527 Washington

Avenue

88. 12/20/1985 Milton H. Latter Memorial Library 5120 St. Charles

Avenue

89. 12/23/1985 Freret’s Folly 2700 Coliseum Street

90. 3/4/1986 Algiers Courthouse 225 Morgan Street

91. 11/1986 Dufour-Plassan House 1206 N. White Street

92. 12/1986 Pedesclaux-Lemonnier House 640 Royal Street

93. 3/6/1987 Avart-Peretti House 632 St. Peter Street

94. 3/6/1987 Patrick Joyce House 1128 Fourth Street

95. 3/20/1987 Trinity Church (Episcopal) 1329 Jackson Avenue

96. 4/29/1987 H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College 1229 Broadway

97. 11/2/1987 Toole-Hecker House 7632 Hampson St.

98. 3/14/1988 Benjamin House (unveiled 3/25/1988) 1630 Arabella Street

99. 4/13/1988 Victor David House (Le Petit Salon) 620 St. Peter St.

100. 1988 Latrobe’s Waterworks (unveiled 5/1/1990) Latrobe’s Waterworks

Park, Ursulines & Decatur Streets

101. 4/27/1988 Julia Row (unveiled 5/1/1990) 604 Julia Street

102. 7/1988 Touro Synagogue 4224 St. Charles

Avenue

103. 10/2/1989 Judge John Howard Ferguson House 1500 Henry Clay

Avenue

104. 11/1989 Southern Yacht Club 105 N. Roadway Dr.

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105. 1/26/1990 St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church St. Charles Ave. at

State St.

106. 2/9/1990 Alfred Grima House 1604 Fourth Street

107. 5/30/1990 Thomas Sully House 4010 St. Charles

Avenue

108. 6/8/1990 Adam Graner House 1221 Delachaise St.

109. 6/8/1990 Huey P. Long House 14 Audubon Blvd.

110. 3/7/1991 Gilmour-Parker House 2520 Prytania Street

7/19/1991 Brevard-Rice House (to replace stolen plaque #67) 1239 First Street

111. 4/2/1991 Lanoix Row 933 Burgundy Street

112. 5/29/1992 Gabriel Peyroux Hosue 901 Burgundy Street

113. 8/3/1992 Nicholas Bertoli Building 508 Chartres Street

114. 10/8/1993 Jean Adrien Delpit House 521 St. Louis Street

115. 8/17/1994 Campanel Cottage 901 Toulouse Street

116. 2/23/1995 Cucullu Row 838 Chartres Street

117. 2/23/1995 Thomas Poree House 838 Royal Street

118. 2/23/1995 Site of First U.S. District Court 919 Royal Street

119. 8/25/1995 Claiborne Cottage 2524 St. Charles

Avenue

120. 8/25/1995 St. Elizabeth’s Asylum 1314 Napoleon

Avenue

121. 10/16/1995 Miss Susie Ellermann’s House 1234 Henry Clay

Avenue

122. 10/19/1995 Kohl-Wilson House (unveiled 10-20-95) 1121 Washington

Avenue

123. 4/3/1996 The Hedgewood 2427 St. Charles

Avenue

124. 5/1/1996 Jazz (Back-Of-Town) 330 Loyola Avenue

125. 7/26/1997 St. Alphonsus Church 2045 Constance Street

126. 10/31/1997 Pecquet Building 505 Royal Street

127. 11/22/1997 Dominique Bouligny Building 1217 Royal

Street

128. 9/13/1998 Sun Oak 2020 Burgundy Street

129. 11/30/1998 St. Mary’s Chapel 1516 Jackson

Avenue

130. 12/10/1999 Cosimo Matasssa Recording Studio 838 N. Rampart Street

131. 2000 Castle Family House 917-919 N. Tonti

Street

132. 4/11/2001 The Manse 2328 Coliseum Street

133. 5/16/2001 Xiques House 521 Dauphine Street

134. 1-25-2002 Morris-Downman House 2525 St. Charles

Avenue

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135. 4/13/2002 Dolliole Cottage 1440 Pauger Street

136. 4/13/2002 Boutin Cottage 1445 Pauger Street

137. 8/24/2002 Joseph Hernandez House 1641 Amelia Street

138. 11/5/2002 Estelle Musson House 1015 Esplanade

Avenue

139. 12/12/2003 Denis House 600 Esplanade

Avenue

140. 12/12/2003 Thomas House 712 Royal Street

141. 12/12/2003 Lautenschlaeger Market 1930 Burgundy Street

142. 6/30/2004 Squires House 2220 St. Charles

Avenue

143. 12/17/2004 Benjamin-Monroe House 5531 St. Charles

Avenue

144. 6/14/05 Carmelite Monastery 1236 N. Rampart

Street

145. 8/6/2008 Jackson and Mason, Thornhill Buildings 824 Gravier Street

146. 12/15/2009 William C. Soria House 1432 Eighth Street

147. 7/12/2012 Jones Hall Tulane U., Newcomb

Place

12/11/2013 Trinity Church Episcopal (to replace stolen plaque #95) 1329 Jackson Avenue

148. 4/4/2014 Hoey House 7933 Willow Street

3/6/2015 Susan Hackett House(to replace stolen plaque #68) 2336 St. Charles Avenue

149. 3/2015 Tara 5705 St. Charles

Avenue

150. 5/8/2015 Mid-City Post Office 4513 Bienville Street

151. 6/19/2015 First Unitarian Church 2903 Jefferson

Ave. @ S. Claiborne

152. 12/2015 Rathbone DeBuys House 1535 Webster Street

153. George Washington Cable House 1313 Eighth St.