The Seignouret-Brulatour building and interior courtyard after a six-year historic renovation.
"What lies beneath the floors or behind the walls in your home? Archaeologists, curators, historians, and preservationists have been seeking answers to these questions at a Creole townhouse in New Orleans’ French Quarter. Begun in 1816, this three-story brick and stucco building located at 520 Royal Street was constructed for François Seignouret, a native of Bordeaux and veteran of the Battle of New Orleans who rose to become one of the city’s most prominent antebellum merchants. Also hailing from Bordeaux and a merchant in his own right, Pierre Ernest Brulatour purchased the house in 1870, and members of the Brulatour family continued to reside there for several decades. During the Crescent City’s nineteenth-century heyday, the house formed part of a larger urban compound that provided both Seignouret and Brulatour with commercial and utilitarian space on the lower levels and refined living areas upstairs. ..."
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18th-century trash becomes 21st-century treasure with these pieced-together fragments of a tin-glazed earthenware, or faïence, vessel recovered from a historic household trash pit.
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