Newcomb House

Josephine Louise Le Monnier was born in Baltimore in 1816 and came to New Orleans at fifteen after her mother died, living with her older sister's family. She married Warren Newcomb in 1845 and afterward had no settled home, moving among hotels, boarding houses and relatives' houses. He died in 1866 with an estate of about $650,000, and their daughter Sophie died in 1870. In 1899 Newcomb bought a house here, her first conventional home since childhood. She died in New York in April 1901, and her sister's children contested her will and her sanity in court until 1908.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — steps away
  The Garden District's 1833 cemetery of about 1,100 family tombs, closed to visitors in 2019 and reopened on October 1, 2026 for small guided tours run by the Preservation Resource Center.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 2.1 mi
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 2.2 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 2.3 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.

More markers nearby

• Freret's Folly — steps away
• Commander's Palace — steps away
• Garden District — steps away
• Mayor Isaac W. Patton House — 0.2 mi