2009 December Newsletter Is Here!

Landmarks Board member Jon Smith, also owner of Cork & Bottle Wines, contributed the front page article about the kinds of spirits James Pitot and New Orleans citizens would have imbibed in 1810.

During the time that James Pitot owned the home at what is now 1440 Moss Street on Bayou St. John, New Orleans was just beginning its run as “The New Paris.” Lavish parties and entertaining were de rigueur and it could be suggested that the Pitot House might have been indeed a place of much imbibing. With his lineage of French nobility, the wealth of a successful cotton trader, education and political clout, certainly James Pitot would have entertained at his home. Of this there is no doubt. The nature of the tipple, however, is a source of a little investigation....

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