Stables
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The Grimas added the stables and carriage house to the property not long before Félix Grima’s 1850 purchase of a 36-year-old “griffe” named Felix, for $1200. Felix served the Grimas as a coach driver, a house servant, and possibly even a cook.
This file appears in: The Hermann-Grima House
The Hermann-Grima House
The Hermann-Grima House at 820 St. Louis Street, which today operates as an historic house museum, was a site of enslavement from its construction in 1831 through the Civil War. At least sixty people of African descent served both the Hermann and…