Garden District in New Orleans in Orleans Parish, Louisiana — The American South (West South Central)
Brevard Clapp Wisdom House
Photographed by Craig Doda, June 15, 2024
1. Brevard Clapp Wisdom House Marker
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Located on a prominent corner on the eastern edge of the old Faubourg Livaudais, the Brevard Clapp Wisdom House commands attention for its architectural grandeur, sheer scale, and historical associations. As designed and constructed in 1857 by James Calrow and Charles Pride for merchant Albert Hamilton Brevard and his wife Juliette Gayle, the masonry home was long and narrow with a side-hall plan, its detailing employing the restrained Greek Revival style. Today's expansive footprint and Italianate touches derive from modifications for the Emory Clapp family, whose tenure lasted over six decades. John Minor Wisdom, whose landmark desegregation opinions as a judge on the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals helped to advance civil rights in the South, lived here from 1947-1972. Gothic novelist Anne Rice, whose ownership brought many curiosity seekers to gaze at this Garden District landmark, also lived here from 1989-2004.
90° 4.818′ W. Marker is in New Orleans, Louisiana, in Orleans Parish. It is in the Garden District. It is at the intersection of First Street and Chestnut Street, on the right when traveling north on First Street. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1239 First St, New Orleans LA 70130, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Louisiana’s River Parishes. It is also in the American South, specifically in the Deep South, on the Gulf Coast, and in the Great River Road Region. Globally, it is in North America, a Gulf of Mexico state, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain, the Viceroyalty of New France, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, the Louisiana Purchase, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
Credits. This page was last revised on June 28, 2024. It was originally submitted on June 28, 2024, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. This page has been viewed 2,294 times since then and 333 times this year. Photos:1, 2. submitted on June 28, 2024, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. • James Hulse was the editor who published this page.
