817-819 St. Ann Street
This file appears in: The Cazelars: Wealth Preservation in a Racially Mixed Family
This portion of the lot belonged to Marie Louise. She lived here with her life partner, a white man named Emile Sainet, and their children. Upon her death in 1854, the house was passed in succession to her son, Jean Francois Emile Sainet. When he died in 1883, the property went to Charlotte Sainet Chaviere.
This file appears in: The Cazelars: Wealth Preservation in a Racially Mixed Family
The Cazelars: Wealth Preservation in a Racially Mixed Family
Jean Pierre Cazelar, a white man of French descent, was the wealthy patriarch of a prominent multi-racial family in 19th-century New Orleans. Though Cazelar intended his children to inherit his entire…