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Chandeliers. He says he went in as “far as the water,” running electric cable and installing lights.
Necaise reports that Lister felt that some timbers were rotten, and so Lister filled in and cemented mouth, leaving the rest to remain as a tunnel.
Lister raised Shetland ponies in fenced area and had big bam, but kept some of related things in tunnel, including saddles and other equipment. It was for that purpose that Nicaise was employed to run electric lights in the tunnel.
There was wishing well with 4-foot diameter on West side of house. One could look down 15 or 20 feet and see many coins. Well was covered or filled, coins remaining.
Interview with Mrs. Nancy Gex, current owner of site Date of Interview: 11-3-03
Mrs. Gex indicates that oldest photo available of Pirate House is the one showing many ballast stones. (Copy enclosed.)
Photos show two walls of ballast rock; even now, much of the Gex garden contains such rock, as do neighbor’s property, like Serendipity. Important as possible evidence that boats came to Pirate House area, even though not a harbor.
One picture shows very large extension to rear of main house.
There is the remnant of a small brick wall on East side of inlet to pond. It is topped with a large ballast rock.
Mrs. Gex tells account of Lister having had cave-in of tunnel in early 50’s; he sent in teenager, who brought up knives and either at this time or another, a skeleton was found. Lister had cypress boards cover cave-in. (In more recent years, Dr. Marco Giardino, an archaeologist with NASA, did some corings of the the area, finding evidence of cypress.)
According to Mrs. Gex, Fritz Eagan, now deceased, was another dependable witness who had entered the tunnel. Eagan was a respected businessman and an elected official in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, for a number of years. He reported that the entrance had bars.
A large bell now by the Gex front entrance had been found far behind the house area.
Two large and beautiful chandeliers in the Gex home were salvaged after Camille.
Mrs. Gex pointed out that steps in the oldest photo, mentioned above, appear to be wooden, indicating that the present concrete steps would have been made in later years.