Cornstalk Fence House

ID: 3021 ~ Source: Courtesy of the Louisiana State Museum. ~ Date: 1939

This file appears in: Former Home of Judge Francois-Xavier Martin

The building at 915 Royal Street with its famous cornstalk fence as it appeared in 1939.

This file appears in: Former Home of Judge Francois-Xavier Martin

Former Home of Judge Francois-Xavier Martin

By Mary Ann Wegmann, The Law Library of Louisiana & University of New Orleans History Department

Judge Francois-Xavier Martin, a Louisiana Supreme Court judge for thirty-one years, from 1815 until his death in 1846, first acquired 915 Royal Street in 1818 for $7,500. At that time, a two-story…