Briggs - Staub House
by Susan Rissi Tregoning
Title
Briggs - Staub House
Artist
Susan Rissi Tregoning
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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Located at 2605 Prytania Street is the Briggs-Staub House. Build in 1849, for a gambler by the name of Cuthbert Bulitt it is one of only a few Gothic Revival houses in the city and the only one located in the Garden District. After the home was completed, Bulitt refused to pay for it. Many believe he couldn’t afford to because of a large gambling loss. The house was sold to Charles Briggs an English insurance executive.
It seems odd that any architectural style would be "off-limits" in the varied Garden District, but such was the case when this Neo-Gothic cottage. Protestant neighbors complained that its steeply pitched roof and pointed arch windows recalled Catholic traditions they had hoped to leave behind in the French Quarter.
Copyright 2018 Susan Rissi Tregoning
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September 14th, 2018
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