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LeCARPENTIER and CORREJOLLES

 

Francois Correjolles was born in Baltimore to parents who had sought refuge

 

there from the 1791 Revolution in St. Domingue (now Haiti). Correjolles' upbringing 

 

greatly influenced the architecture of the house; he was in fact one of the first 

 

native-born Americans to achieve success as an architect in New Orleans, 

 

and his work consistently reflects the American influences on local Creole 

 

architecture.

 

Like Correjolles, Joseph Essau LeCarpentier moved to New Orleans

from Haiti. Eager to display his wealth earned as an auctioneer in this new city, LeCarpentier had the house built. It worked, for not long after LeCarpentier moved in, the house was the scene of the marriage of his daughter, Louise Therese Felicite Thelcide LeCarpentier, to Michel Alonzo Morphy, a prominent attorney and, from 1839-1846, a judge on the Louisiana Supreme Court. The LeCarpentier family lived in the house from 1826-1833 before selling it to the Merle family.

 

 

 

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