Keys

ID: 6362 ~ Source: Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses
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Keys

Pantries were kept locked due to the number of workmen and delivery people making their way in and out of the courtyard and to discourage anyone other than a few specified people from accessing valuable spices, teas, alcohol, or silver.

This file appears in: The Hermann-Grima House

By Katie Burlison and The HGGHH Team
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…