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75 Constructed in 1830, the Hurst-Stauffer House was located originally on the 5600 block of Tchoupitoulas Street in New Orleans. Built for Cornelius Hearst (1796– 1851) and his wife, Eleonor (n.d.), the house was designed by an unidentified architect , but details appear to have been adapted from plates depicting Grecian architecture in Asher Benjamin’s influential book The American Builder’s Companion (1816). The plantation property was developed in the early 1830s as Hurstville, one of the first Uptown suburbs in New Orleans. It was incorporated into the city and fell into disrepair. Myrthé Bianca Taylor (1864–1942), daughter of Confederate general Richard Taylor (1826–1879) and wife of Isaac Hull Stauffer (1861–1897), purchased the house in 1922. The couple eventually had it dismantled and reconstructed on its present site on Garden Lane in Metairie, using original architectural elements and materials. William Maples and James Bozemen were the masons, Rausburg & McCurrie completed the millwork and carpentry, and William Cochran served as supervisor. The main floor was elevated, adding a rez-dechauss ée (first floor). Armstrong and Koch undertook a second renovation about 1930. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Williams owned the house from 1940 until 1975, when Ken Marshall purchased it. Actor John Goodman later bought Stauffer House, followed by Robert and Deborah Patrick. Why Tebbs photographed the house so as to emphasize the pitiful fence remains a mystery. HURST-STAUFFER HOUSE 1830/1922 Hurst-Stauffer House (three-quarter view), gelatin silver print, Louisiana State Museum, 1956.087.346 76 Greenwood Plantation (detail of Doric columns, entablature, pediment, and metopes), vintage gelatin silver print, Louisiana State Museum, 1956.087.012b ...

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