Stephen B. Packard
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Stephen Bennett Packard Sr. was a Republican politician in Reconstruction-era Louisiana. He ran for governor in 1876 against Democratic opponent Francis T. Nicholls, and at the end of the election bot
Jacques Nicolas Bussière de Pouilly, was a Franco-American architect. He was one of the most important architects in New Orleans during the nineteenth century, particularly known for his work for the
The St. Louis Hotel in New Orleans, designed by J.N.B. de Pouilly, shortly before demolition in 1915
St. Louis Hotel, New Orleans, 1875 engraving by James Wells Champney.
A fictionalized artist's imagining of "Sale of Estates, Pictures and Slaves in the Rotunda at New Orleans," by J. M. Starling (engraver), from William Henry Brooke (illustrator), in The Slave States of America (1842) by James Silk Buckingham, that depicts a British artist's rendition of an auction being held in the St. Louis Hotel's rotunda. Shown is interior of a dome that looks more like the Pantheon in Rome than the St. Louis Hotel, with an auction block,
Grailhe Family Tomb, as seen in 1965