Residence of Don Manuel Lanzos

Built in 1788 in the French colonial style by Robert Jones, an American builder, this house was the birthplace of Renato Beluche (1781-1860), a lieutenant of Jean Lafitte’s Baratarians who took part in the Battle of New Orleans and later became an admiral in the Venezuelan Navy. In Geo. W. Cable’s 1879 story ‘Tite Poulette,’ the house was referred to as ‘Madam John’s Legacy.’ An earlier house had been erected on part of this site about 1726 by Jean Pascal, a sailor who was killed in the Natchez Massacre in 1729, and it was occupied by his widow until her death in 1777. The house was presented to the Louisiana State Museum by Mrs. Stella Hirsch Lewann on June 23, 1947, and was restored in 1974.

New Orleans, Louisiana · United States