Pitot House

The house changed hands several times before it carried Pitot's name. Accounts differ on its start: a Spanish official, Don Bartolome Bosque, is said to have built it in 1799, while another account has it finished in 1790 by Don Santiago Lorreins. Bosque's daughter Suzette married Governor Claiborne. Madame Rillieux owned it from 1805 to 1810, enclosed the ground floor in masonry and added a gallery. Pitot, its fourth owner, lived here from 1810 to 1819. Mother Cabrini owned it later, and the Louisiana Landmarks Society saved it in 1964 after it was moved to avoid demolition.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 1.9 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.
• Congo Square — 1.9 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.
• 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.
• The Cabildo — 2.3 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.

More markers nearby

• Allard Plantation — 0.2 mi
• The Old Portage — 0.2 mi
• Duelling Grounds — 0.5 mi
• Fair Grounds Race Course — 0.7 mi