Brevard-Rice House
New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Marker Inscription
Brevard-Rice House. Built in 1857 for Albert Hamilton Brevard. James H. Calrow, Architect. Charles Pride, Builder. Owened by Brevard heirs until 1869. Purchased then by Emory Clapp, who added the library wing on the left. It remained in the Clapp family until 1935. It was then owned and occupied by the families of Dr. Frank Brostrom from 1935 to 1947, Judge John Minor Wisdom from 1947 to 1972, and John A. Mmahat from 1972 to 1988. Purchased in 1989 by the novelist Anne Rice and her husband, the poet and painter, Stan Rice. Orleans Parish Landmarks Commission, 1991.
Erected by Orleans Parish Landmarks Commission
The Story
This Garden District mansion was built in 1857 for Albert Hamilton Brevard, designed by architect James H. Calrow. Over the following century it passed through prominent hands — including federal judge John Minor Wisdom — before becoming, in 1989, the home of novelist Anne Rice and her husband, poet and painter Stan Rice.
Why it matters
One house threads together antebellum New Orleans architecture, a jurist central to civil-rights-era law, and one of America's best-known contemporary novelists.
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Related people
- · Albert Hamilton Brevard
- · John Minor Wisdom
- · Anne Rice
- · Stan Rice
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