Bosque House

Built in 1795

by Bartholome Bosque, a native of Palma; father of Suzette Bosque, third wife of Louisiana’s first American governor

W.C.C. Claiborne

on this site stood the house of Don Bernardo de Galvez, Spanish Governor of Louisiana

1777-1785

Sold in 1787 to Don Vincente Nunez, Royal Treasurer of the province. Here on Good Friday, March 21, 1788 began the disastrous fire which destroyed most of the colonial city.

Marker is on Saint Peter Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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