505 Royal St.

Square: 62 Lot Number: 18676

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Vieux Carré Commission Evaluation:

No change: main and service building -- green; courtyard additions -- brown. 3-story with porte-cochere type masonry Creole style store/residence, which, although it was constructed c. 1820, was remodeled c. 1850 with the addition of vitrines and infilling for the porte-cochere.

Green
Portion of Building Service building
Material Masonry
Green
Portion of Building Main
Material Masonry
Brown
Portion of Building Courtyard additions
Material Wood

Dimensions

Frontage 31′ 11″ 5‴
2 83′ 1″ 4‴
3 31′ 11″ 5‴
4 83′ 1″ 4‴

Chain of Title

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 17th 1982
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Thursday, May 19th 2005

Record Source COB
N.A.#
Authority Rachel M. Mays ( Notary )
Authority Date Wednesday, June 1st 2005
Record Type sale
Price $1200000.00

Sale of 505 Royal.

Saturday, May 31st 2003

Record Source COB
N.A.#
Authority James A. Mounger ( Notary )
Authority Date Monday, June 2nd 2003
Record Type sale
Price $3500000.00

Sale of 505 Royal.

Tuesday, May 25th 1999

Record Source COB
N.A.#
Authority I. Jay Krieger ( Notary )
Authority Date Thursday, June 10th 1999
Record Type sale

Sale of 505 Royal. [N.B. This sale is made "in consideration of the receipt of 100% of the membership interest in 505 Royal, L.L.C."]

Thursday, February 18th 1999

Record Source COB
CDC#
Authority Civil District Court ( Court )
Authority Date Thursday, February 18th 1999
Record Type succession

Transfer of "a certain lot of ground, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon...measure thirty feet (30') six inches (6") front on Royal Street by seventy eight feet (78') in depth, more or less." See survey of Gilbert, Kelly and Couturié, Inc., dated Feb. 11, 1985.

Thursday, October 26th 1922

Record Source COB
Volume 355
Page 210
CDC# 143949
Authority Civil District Court ( Court )
Record Type succession

Inherited.

Monday, March 31st 1919

Record Source COB
Volume 305
Page 487
Authority L. A. Hubert ( Notary )
Record Type [sale?]

Thursday, July 27th 1916

Record Source COB
Volume 285
Page 290
Authority L. A. Hubert ( Notary )
Record Type [sale?]

Monday, July 10th 1916

Record Source COB
Volume 287
Page 243
CDC# 117049
Authority Civil District Court ( Court )
Record Type succession

Monday, January 27th 1896

Record Source COB
Volume 162
Page 185
Authority T. Buisson ( Notary )
Record Type sale

Friday, January 10th 1896

Record Source Court
CDC# 28276
Authority Civil District Court ( Court )
Record Type family meeting

To be sold by order of the Court after family meeting.

Thursday, September 5th 1895

Record Source COB
Volume 157
Page 714
Authority T. Buisson ( Notary )
Record Type [sale?]

2/6 interest.

Tuesday, November 12th 1889

Record Source COB
CDC# 28276
Authority Civil District Court ( Court )
Record Type succession

Part interest.

Thursday, April 21st 1887

Record Source COB
Record Type succession

3/4 of his share to his sisters, 1/4 of his share to his mother.

Tuesday, October 27th 1885

Record Source Court
CDC# 15626
Authority Civil District Court ( Court )
Record Type succession

Tuesday, May 26th 1874

Record Source COB
Volume 103
Page 352
Court# 36939
Authority 2nd District Court ( Court )
Record Type succession

2nd D.C. 36939 transferred to CDC 14223.

Saturday, December 6th 1862

Record Source COB
Volume 87
Page 524
Authority J. Graham ( Notary )
Record Type transfer

by Act of Transfer

Tuesday, February 12th 1861

Record Source COB
Volume 84
Page 588
Authority A. E. Bienvenu ( Notary )
Record Type public sale

Also COB 84/589 Original Act: ?/34 At public sale from the succession of Louis Constant Adolphe Pecquet. "Buildings and improvements are described as a three-story brick house, slate covered containing a store on the ground floor; 4 large rooms and 2 cabinets in upper stories; gallery, large carriage entry, etc. Also a two-story brick kitchen containing 6 rooms, another two-story brick building with 2 rooms, outhouses, cisterns, water-works, etc."

Monday, May 22nd 1854

Record Source Original Act
Volume 7
Page 119
Authority A. Boudousquie ( Notary )
Authority Date Monday, May 22nd 1854
Record Type [sale?]

"A lot of ground situated in this city on Royal Street...Measuring about 30' 6" front by 78' depth more or less, bounded on one side by land formerly belonging to Mr. Grandchamps and on the other side to land of Mr. Boimore. Together with buildings and improvements."

Friday, April 24th 1835

Record Source Original Act
Volume 44
Page 281
Authority ( Notary )
Authority Date Friday, April 24th 1835
Record Type [sale?]

Tuesday, May 21st 1833

Record Source COB
Authority A. M. Leroy ( Notary )
Record Type sale

Ratification of Sale. Annexed to Act of L. T. Caire, N. P. 31/946.

Thursday, February 28th 1833

Record Source Original Act
Volume 26
Page 283
Authority ( Notary )
Authority Date Thursday, February 28th 1833
Record Type [sale?]

"A lot of ground... About 30' front on Royal Street by 78' in depth,... Composed together with the brick house of stories, having a large store on the ground floor, now a [?] occupied by Mr. J. Marroc; of four apartments, two cabinets, one gallery, a courtyard, kitchen with upper and lower floor built of bricks, rooms for domestics, a storehouse, cellar, etc."

Thursday, September 13th 1821

Record Source Original Act
Volume 20
Page 363
Authority M. de Armas ( Notary )
Authority Date Thursday, September 13th 1821
Record Type [sale?]

Described as: A brick house with dependencies

Wednesday, April 10th 1811

Record Source Original Act
Volume 5
Page 185
Authority M. de Armas ( Notary )
Authority Date Wednesday, April 10th 1811
Record Type [sale?]

Note: At this point, Lots. No. 18675 and 18676 were joined, measuring together 61' front on Royal Street by 78' deep and front on St. Louis Street, F. M. Buildings and improvements described as: Two buildings with upper story.

Friday, January 1st 1808

Record Source Map
Authority Pilie Map ( Map )
Record Type [sale?]

The map lists "Dufau" at this site.

Saturday, May 10th 1806

Record Source Original Act
Volume 52
Page 402
Authority Pierre Pedesclaux ( Notary )
Authority Date Saturday, May 10th 1806
Record Type [sale?]

Agent / Single Party Act / Other:

Charles Baronee Dufau

"On said lots are built two houses, bounded on one side by the lot owned by the Marchand Succession and on the other side by a lot of ground owned by the vendor and which property is separated by a party wall."

Citations

"One of the distinctive yet unobtrusive buildings of the French Quarter is the old home of the Widow Roche. It has small but characteristic court at the end of the arched corridor. Many families of note have occupied the apartments above the ground floor stores, and here lived, not so many years ago, Mollie Moore Davis, a New Orleans writer whose stories of the folk of the Old Square has caused her memory to be revered. Here, too, it was that a host of friends and admirers paid her their last respects."

— Old New Orleans: A History of the Vieux Carré
Author: Stanley Clisby Arthur Date: Friday, January 1st 1937

"Visitors Welcomed at Silversmiths':

[w/photo]

In other days, people went to Europe to see beautiful creations of the silversmiths' art. Now that such jaunts are impossible, it is a comfort to know that Karl Dingeldein has brought Europe to New Orleans....[a]t 505 Royal Street."

— Weekly Business Bu[lletin?]
Date: Thursday, March 15th 1945

"JONES, Evan.

Service sheet: Dec. 1, 1800, AGI, PC, leg. 161-a.

Country: New England (U.S.A.)

Age: 61

Health: robust

Marital status: married

Ranks: carbineer (Oct. 24, 1779); sub-lieutenant (Feb. 17, 1787); captain (Feb. 12, 1792).

Regiments: Company of Distinguished Carabineer Militia (7 yrs. 3 mos. 23 days); Iberville Militia (4 yrs. 11 mos. 25 days); German Coast Disciplined Provincial Militia (8yrs. 10mos. 19days).

Campaigns: none.

Notes: supposed valor; good application, capacity & conduct; commandant, Acadian Coast of La Fourche de Chetimachas, 1797-1798."

— Honor & Fidelity: the Louisiana Infantry Regiment, p. 193
Author: Jack D.L. Holmes Date: Friday, January 1st 1965

"REYNAUD, Jean.

Service sheet: June 30, 1793, and Dec. 31, 1802, AGI, PC, leg. 161-a & leg. 161-b.

Country: (Marseilles, France); New Orleans

Age: 45

Health: robust

Marital status: married

Ranks: soldier (Oct. 1, 1777); sergeant second-class (Oct. 1, 1787); sub-lieutenant (Feb. 12, 1792); [sub-lieutenant] of grenadiers (Aug. 20, 1797).

Regiments: New Orleans Militia and New Orleans Battalion of Disciplined Provincial Militia (25 yrs., 3 mos.).

Campaigns: none.

Notes: supposed valor; average application & capacity; good conduct."

— Honor & Fidelity: the Louisiana Infantry Regiment, p. 216
Author: Jack D.L. Holmes Date: Friday, January 1st 1965

[Advertisement]

"New Orleans Silversmiths
Gold and Silver Repair, Plating
505 Royal St."

— Vieux Carre Courier
Date: Friday, May 23rd 1969

"Four Seasons Pastry Shop
Gold Medal Winner, Olympia, London, 1963

[w/drawing]

Les Patisseries aux Quatre Saisons
(Four Seasons, Inc.)
505 Royal Street
New Orleans, La. 70130"

— Postcard
Date: Tuesday, July 1st 1969

"Free Birthday Cake at 'Four Seasons':

On Monday, Jan. 5, The Four Seasons Pastry Shop (Le Patisserie aux Quatre Seasons) will celebrate its 20th anniversary at 505 Royal."

— Times-Picayune
Date: Saturday, January 3rd 1970

"Four Seasons: bye-bye bonbons, hello wheat germ:

Napoleons, mocha squares, orangines and all the other bonbons will vanish from the Four seasons Pastry Shop's shelves Friday to be replaced by such earthier edibles as granola, organic peanut butter and honey (complete with honeycomb)."

— The States-Item
Author: John Pope Date: Saturday, September 3rd 1977