720 St. Louis St.

Pierre Soulé House (Kelsto Club)

Erected: 1833
Architect: [Claude Gurlie & Joseph Guillot?]
Builder: [Claude Gurlie & Joseph Guillot?]

An exceptionally good example of the typical three story house of the period erected about 1833 by Pierre Soulé who bought the property in February of that year from Samuel Hermann & Co. From 1808 until 1831 the property, then including the adjacent lot (722 St. Louis St.) belonged to Joseph Conand. The Tricou House (711 Bourbon Street) of 1833-34 and the Vignie house (Royal at Orleans) of 1833, both known to have been built by Gurlie and Guillot, are so similar in detail to this Soule house as to make it almost certain they were also its builders. This was apparently Soule's residence until 1839, during the years of the building of the nearby St. Louis Hotel by the New Orleans Improvement Company, of which he was president. Restoration in 1929 by Moise H. Goldstein, architect. The original red brick façade has been covered with stucco.

"Sales at Auction...the 25th of May.

...3. Another fine brick house, No. 83 St. Louis St. between Royal and Bourbon streets, built on a lot 30 feet in front and 150 in depth F.M. the house consists of a store and a large corridor in front, a kitchen and two rooms below, and entresol over the store, and behind an office and four servant rooms. The upper story consists of a parlour, a dining room, four bed rooms and kitchen, a closed gallery, pantry, balcony, etc. The yard is paved with brick and there is a fine brick wall. The house is at present occupied by Colonel Vignie.

4. Another house contiguous to the one just mentioned, No. 81, built on a lot 30' front by 150' in depth F.M. containing 4 bedrooms, dining room, pantry and several outbuildings."

Very elegant and Desirable Residence on St. Louis street, between Royal and Bourbon streets.

A Three-Story and Attic Brick Dwelling fitted out and furnished in the most approved modern style, containing sixteen rooms, and built upon a wide and deep lot.

By J. B. Walton & Deslonde - J. B. Walton, auctioneer (Oct. 3, 1866) - in Sq. Royal-Bourbon-Conti & St. Louis: 30' F.M. or 31'-11"-5'''AM x 148' FM or 157'-8"-6'''AM. "[T]ogether the elegant three story and attic brick house thereon, formerly the residence of Horace and Robert C. Cammack. This property was improved and fitted up in the most elegant manner by its former owners, without regard to expense. It is one of the coolest and most comfortable houses in the city of New Orleans and is located on a street paved with square blocks. The dwelling contains two large parlors and a spacious hall frescoed by Canova, a frescoed library room, a large dining room, five bed rooms and a dressing room, besides one office in the main building. The back buildings are three stories high, and contain a kitchen, store room, washing and ironing rooms on the ground floor, and servants' rooms, bath room, pantry, etc., etc. on the upper floors. The yard is flagged and in the rear of it there is a garden. There is gas throughout the establishment, and there are two cisterns and a hydrant in the yard.

" ...[t]he building was known more than half a century ago as the Effingham Lawrence Mansion...was built by the Cammack family, one of the oldest and wealthiest families in the South as far back as 1854....Effingham Lawrence married a daughter of Mr. Cammack."

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