Briggs-Staub House - New Orleans

The Briggs-Staub House is located on Prytania Street in the Garden District of New Orleans, Louisiana.  The mansion was built in 1849 for Londoner Charles Briggs by James Gallier.  It is unique in the Garden District because it was built in the Gothic style, and employs Gothic touches such as pointed arches on the windows and an Elizabethan chimney.  Briggs was not bothered by the local Protestant disdain for Gothic architecture and its association with the Creoles and the Catholic Church, a belief which most of his fellow Garden District residents adhered to.  However, the home does employ a center-hall, and in that shares a similar quality with two other house at this intersection.  The servant quarters still stands to the left of the house, and while Briggs was said to not have owned slaves, he did utilize Irish indentured servants.      

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