Madame John's Legacy

Madame John's Legacy in a drawing by the American artist William Woodward (around 1910)

Madame John's Legacy is a historic building complex at 632 Dumaine Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans in the US state of Louisiana .

The facility consists of three parts: the main building, the kitchen building with an integrated residential complex (“cook's quarters”) for kitchen workers and an originally three-story residential building ( Garçonnière ). The foundation is made of brick, the walls are covered with a wooden facade . Housework used to be done in the courtyard.

The name "Madame John's Legacy" comes from the novel Tite Poulette by the American writer George Washington Cable .

history

Madame John's Legacy

The main building of today's ensemble was rebuilt in the French colonial style after the city fire of 1788 on the foundations and partly with the building material of an older building, estimated from 1722 to 1728. It survived the renewed town fire of 1794. In the following years it often changed hands and was rebuilt several times, the current stables were built in 1826, the Garçonnière in 1845. In the late 19th century, apartments were set up in all parts of the building. The last owners donated the building to the Louisiana State Museum in 1947 . In 1952 a hurricane damaged the Garçonnière and the top floor was not rebuilt. The house was open to the public as a museum until 1965, when it was again badly damaged by a hurricane . The restoration work did not begin until 1974 and was completed a year later. Since then, the main building, which is one of the best-preserved buildings from 18th century New Orleans, has once again served as a museum. In 1998 the property was renovated again.

View of the inner courtyard

Madame John's Legacy was listed on April 15, 1970 by the National Register of Historic Places as a monument with the number 70000256 and recognized the same day as a National Historic Landmark because of its formative Creole architecture .

Trivia

The house was used as the setting and location in the film Interview with a Vampire .

Web links

Commons : Madame John's Legacy  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• USGS topographic map: New Orleans East, LA

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Louisiana State Museum: How Madame John's Got Its Name ( April 25, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Madame John's Legacy (PDF; 427 kB)
3. ↑ 4 photos, from 1975, from the outside (PDF; 1.0 MB)
4. ↑ Entry in the National Register Information System . National Park Service , accessed June 12, 2016
5. ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Louisiana. National Park Service , accessed August 4, 2019.
6. ^ Mary Herczog: Frommer's New Orleans 2008 . Frommer's, December 26, 2007, ISBN 978-0-470-19406-5 , pp. 208f. (Accessed January 2, 2012).

Coordinates: 29 ° 57 ′ 34 ″  N , 90 ° 3 ′ 46 ″  W.