Evariste Blanc House
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Evariste Blanc built the mansion you see before you around 1834. According to city directories, Evariste Blanc was a hardware merchant, ship chandler, and lime merchant. By 1834 Blanc also had a brick-making company, and some sources contend he was real-estate developer as well.
Following Blanc's death, his widow, Marie Fannie Labatut Blanc, planned to donate the property to the Archdiocese of New Orleans for a parish church. After Madame Blanc's death in 1875 her daughter, Sylvanie Blanc Denegre, acquired the property, donating it to the foundation of Our Lady of the Rosary Parish in 1905. In 1907 the home became the parish rectory, and it is still being used for that purpose today.
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Evariste Blanc House
The house has the airy feel of a colonial plantation house and combines elements of both Creole and American house design. Image courtesy of Amanda Knight.
Evariste Blanc House
Image was created for the United States Government and is in the Public Domain. Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Historic American Building Survey, HABS LA-168
View of Evariste Blanc House from the Bayou
The open belvedere on top of the house provided a panorama view of the Bayou, while the fence, composed of tall, stuccoed brick posts and open ironwork, unusual in New Orleans at the time, provided seclusion while allowing for more Bayou views. Image courtesy of Amanda Knight.Map
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