Musee Rosette Rochon
Musee Rosette Rochon
Musee Rosette Rochon
The only extant residence built by Rosette Rochon, the Musee stands at 1515 Pauger Street in Faubourg Marigny on the eastern edge of the world famous French Quarter. The house dates from about 1815 and has survived as a fine and rare early example of a Creole cottage, the most prevalent form of domestic housing in antebellum New Orleans.
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Rosette Rochon, free woman of color, was born a decade before the American Revolution in about 1767 in Mobile, Alabama. She died in New Orleans during the Civil War at a very advanced age in 1863.
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