Commagère-Mercier House - New Orleans

The Commagère-Mercier House is located on Saint Peter Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.  According to the plaque which sits in fron of the house, the Commagère-Mercier House was erected about 1795 by Pedro Commagère after an earlier house on the site was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1794.  In 1806 it was occupied in part by John Watkins, Mayor of New Orleans and by Mr. Forstall's store.  Sold by Pedro Commagère in 1806 to Mme. Gracieose Fontenelle, wife of Jean Baptiste Mercier, and by her heirs in 1828 to Louis Gally whose family owned it until 1866.  The site was granted by the company of the Indies to Francois Gallard, called Chamilly, in 1722.  Nicolas Vebent, its second owner, sold it in 1782 to Jean Baptiste Orso from whom Commagère bought it in 1785.  This fine example of New Orleans Spanish Colonial architecture has been occupied by the Gumbo Shop since 1945.   

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