Front:
Madame John's Legacy
In the New Orleans' French Quarter
Back:
Madame John's Legacy at 632 Dumaine
Street, in the New Orleans French Quarter,
is the oldest building in the Mississippi Valley.
This old structure, immortalized by George
Washington Cable's Creole stories, has a long
colorful history dating back to 1726 when the
first owner, Jean Pascal, a sea captain from
Provence, France, came to New Orleans. Here
Captain Pascal lived with his wife and
daughter until he was slain by the Natchez
5 Indians in the massacre of 1729.
The building is of the raised cottage plan-
tation type and of entirely different structure
than most of the other houses in the French
Quarter.
9A-H781
A. HIRSCHWITZ, NEW ORLEANS, LA.
ORLEANS-AMERICA'S MOST
INTERESTING
CITY
