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The Architecture of Colonial Louisiana
of both house and wing were of round tile, the kind usually thought of as Spanish but actually made and used by the French in Louisiana before 1730.
On November 6, 1826, the wife of Valerv Nicolas died, and an inventory of the property was made by the notary Felix de Armas. Its sale was advertised in the Louisiana Courier for November 27,1828, as follows:
COURT OFPFOBATES,
SALE BY THE REGISTER OF WLLS.
On Friday, 28 November next, I will expose fur sale at Hewlett's Coffee House at
12	o'clock, for the account of the community which existed between Valery Nicolas^and
The
Marguerite Boisdor6, his late wife, following property and slaves, to wit:
Adelaide, a cook, age 40;
Louis, a bit of a gunsmith, age 22;
Marie, a good house servant, age 13.
A lot of ground situated in this city, in Toulouse Street between Royal and Bourbon, measuring 30 feet front by 80 in depth, with the two-story brick house and
other buildings thereon.
October 28,
CHARLES BLACHE,
Dep. Register of Wills.
At this sale Benjamin Lacoste was the purchaser for $10,950.130n January 21,1834, Lacoste sold the house to the widow of Guillaume Joseph Lombard,14 whose daughter Josephine acquired it on November, 1848.15 The widow Lombard had been Marie Azelie Zerirtgue, whose brother Camille was the builder of the plantation house at Westwego known as Seven Oaks. The Toulouse Street house remained in the Lombard family until 1887, Josephine Lombard became the wife of Pliny Louis Maspero and lived on Esplanade Avenue during the Lombard-Maspero ownership.
In 1887 the property was sold to Theodule Beaufort; in 1895 to Auguste Huard,16 in 1899 to Mrs. David Levy; in 1902 to Mrs. W. Lafargue, and successively to Walker M. Ellis, W. W. Hume and William J. J. Eiger.17 It is now the residence of Mrs. Alvin Hovey-King,18 whose perfume shop occupies the ground floor rooms which originally housed the gunsmith shop of Valery Nicolas.
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Notes
1.	Charles Gayan-6, History of Louisiana, The Spanish Dom'mat)on( New York, 1854), p. 130.
2.	NONA, Acts of Carlos Ximines, Vol. 14, f. 285, February 1800.
3.	NONA, Acts of Pedro Pedesdaux, Vol. 41, f. 551, August 11,1802.
4.	NONA, Acts of Narcisse Broutin, Vol. 1802, f. 451, October 27,1802.
5.	NONA, Acts of Pedro Pedesclaux, Vol. 55, f. 433, July 8, 1807.
6.	ibid., Vol. 51, f. 469, December 9,1808.
7.	Ibid., Vol. 27, f. 63, February 12,1796.
8.	Ibid., Vol. 43, f. 176, February 21.1804.