434-440 Bourbon St.

"A buffalo may be seen at Mr. John Dawson's Livery Stables corner St. Louis and Bourbon Street. Admission 25 cents."

"Will be sold on the premises at 10 o'clock on Monday 25th inst. The title and lease of the House and Stables lately in the possession of JOHN DAWSON at the corner of St. Louis and Bourbon streets. The lease has seven years to run....also the title and interest to the lease of the Blacksmith Shop, Store and Shed lately in the possession of the said John Dawson and forming the opposite corner to the above on Bourbon and St. Louise....the lease has three years to run....also belonging to the estate of John Dawson... ten horses... three stages and seven gigs with harness etc."

"LIVERY STABLES Aime Pineguy & Co. have the Honor....[t]hey have just opened stables in the same house where Mr. Dawson formerly kept his own, at the corner of St. Louis and Bourbon Streets....[t]heir stables are vast, commodious and well covered."

"Sale by Register of Wills on Wednesday the 26th day of February...will be sold...for account of the succession of the late Elenora Rabassa, widow of Jean Pigneguy, deceased.

...1. The lease of that fine dwelling house and stable situated at the corner of St. Louis and Bourbon.

...2. Carriages, Gigs, Talburys, one Hearse, several Saddles, Gig and carriage horses, nine cows, etc."

Laborde Bros. (Cha[rles] and Reymond Laborde) Stables, Bourbon c. St. Louis.

Sale of two lots house and poultry house in Bourbon St. from estate of late La Riviere to Bertrand Jaffre, called La Liberté.

September 17, 1727.

Antoine de Joye de la Goublaye seeks to recover 480 francs on house he built plus medical sundries 130 francs.

August 14, 1727.

M. de Tronquidy [?] Capt. of "La Loire" had sold 2 lots & house at N.O. to La Riviere.

October 14, 1727.

440 Bourbon Street
Pigneguy's Stables

Erected: c. 1810-1820
Architect: unknown
Builder: unknown

This building appears to have been erected after 1810 when the property was purchased by Louis Ayme Pigneguy and Louis Badins from Louis Lecesne. The building on the site at that time was described as "a house composed of eight apartments [rooms] bricked between posts, roofed with flat tiles and planked on the outside, on the side a brick warehouse with an upper story, terrace roofed, and other dependencies, the whole constructed on a corner lot." It had been bought by Lecesne only two days before from Michel Aufoux, representing his wife, the former Elizabeth Chesneau, heir of Jean Chesneau. Chesneau had bought the house in March 1790 from Jacques Dumousseaux, who had owned it for only about three months. The previous owner, Joseph Paul had bought it in 1777 from the estate of Ana Boyer, Widow San Geanos.

Louis A. Pigneguy and Louis Badins became partners in the operation of a livery stable, a business which was continued at this location for over half a century. Pigneguy bought the adjacent property on Bourbon Street in 1816 (see 424-426 Bourbon St.) forming a new partnership with Jean Ayme Pigneguy and the Widow Bertrand in 1819. On the dissolution of this partnership in 1822, title to this corner property was given to Jean Ayme Pigneguy, being inherited by his wife in 1832 and sold by her heirs in 1841 to Pierre Chige. The Widow Pigneguy's inventory of her residence on this property listed "the vestibule, the bed chamber, the dining room, the office, the kitchen and the attic." This would seem to refer to another building. The City Directory of 1869 lists this as Charles Laborde's stable, Laborde having bought the property in 1867.