317-321 Burgundy St.

ID: 4582 ~ Source: Courtesy of the Historic New Orleans Collection ~ Creator: John Watson Riley ~ Date: 2010
This file appears in: The Tio Family's Resilience

This building, built ca.1900, stands on the lot that Josephine Macarty owned. She kept this property her whole life, either living in it herself or allowing other members of the large Tio family to live or do business there, and eventually left it to her living children and grandchildren in 1874.

This file appears in: The Tio Family's Resilience

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