![]() The second name stems from a heartwarming local legend-a local father was said to have built the homes as gifts, one for each of his daughters to receive on their wedding day. The first is obvious when you get there this row of homes beginning at the corner of Coliseum and Phillip Streets is made of eight houses, not seven. To start: both names for this next entry are misleading. The Seven Sisters/Brides Row - 2329 Coliseum #5768 Miranda and Paul Celesire purchased the property for their family in 2018. The Schriebers spent 16 years at 1331 Philip St. They made many major updates and renovations in their 22 years of ownership which were continued by Klaus-Peter Schrieber and his wife Dianne Anderson. After another handful of owners in the mid-20th century, Theresa McAlister and Jesse R. ![]() The Monroe heirs sold the home again in 1936 to Roger Thayer Stone, the namesake of Tulane University’s Center for Latin American Studies. At the time, the Monroes were prominent lawyers, judges, and politicians in Louisiana, especially patriarch Frank who served on the Louisiana Supreme Court for just under 23 years and as Chief Justice for eight. Miller owned the house for nine years before selling it to John and Lilia Kennard, who then sold the house in 1916 to Frank Adair and Alice Blanc Monroe for $7500, the equivalent of about $188,700 in 2021-this same year, the house’s estimated value is around $2.1 million. Miller, then-director of Crescent City Oil. This “cottage,” completed in 1880, was commissioned by Thomas D. This house and others in the Garden District with similar architectural influences usually feature box columns, roof cresting, a cast-iron gallery rail, and a simple cornice with paired brackets. These buildings are most defined by their simple, symmetrical box shape, are between two and three stories, and are two rooms deep. It blends Italianate and French Second Empire-style elements with the Federal or Adam-style architecture most characteristic of the early days of the United States (1780 to around 1840)-making the style most common in the original thirteen colony states including Woodlawn Plantation, Tudor Place, and Decatur House, all located in the greater Washington, D.C. The Monroe Adams House is something of a novelty among the strictly Greek Revival and Italianate-style homes in the surrounding neighborhood. In 1990, Sandra and Norman King purchased the building and began a series of major restorations that were continued in 1997 by the current owners Susan and Charles Zambito. They added a brick classroom building to the back of the property in later years, holding classes until the school closed its doors in 1983. Laura sold her home of 60 years to Albert and Edward Soulé who moved their business school-started the same year Buckner was inspired to create the estate-into the Buckner Mansion. In the next seven years, Laura had another five children, and she and multiple children and grandchildren continued living in the home until 1920. ![]() By 1883, both Buckners had died, and the Eustis family purchased the home from the remaining Buckner siblings. Buckner and the family’s one live-in maid Sally. By 1880, the eldest Buckner daughters were married, though Laura, the second daughter, her husband Cartwright Eustis, and their own five children joined Mr. When they moved into their newest, most opulent home in 1860, the Buckners numbered seven in total: Henry, his wife Catherine, and their five children ranging from 23 to 5 years old. ![]() Situated on the corner of Jackson Avenue and Coliseum Street, the grand, two-story structure includes a basement, the regal stone and cast-iron front gate (with lanterns), and a wide wrap-around balcony and veranda sporting Corinthian and Ionic columns respectively. Reynolds, Stanton’s architect, to design another mansion in 1857 to rival that of his business partner. Despite already owning several other impressive homes in New Orleans, Buckner hired Lewis E. In his chosen hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, Stanton was mid-construction on his grand estate and future National Historic Landmark: Stanton Hall, an opulent Greek Revival-style manor that encompasses an entire city block that he would later die in after only three years in residence. In 1856, Kentucky-born cotton factor Henry Sullivan Buckner officially became business partners with prominent Irish-born cotton broker and plantation owner Frederick Stanton. Fans of American Horror Story will recognize it from seasons three and eight of the series, and the house itself owes its construction to a bit of the “friendly” rivalry so common among the students at “Miss Robichaux’s Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies.” The first house is, according to local tour guides and travel sites alike, one of the most popular sites to see in the Garden District just at a glance, it’s not very surprising to see why.
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