Beauregard-Keyes House
- Style
- Greek Revival
- City
- New Orleans, LA
- Collections
- the french quartergreek revival crescent city
The Beauregard-Keyes House at 1113 Chartres Street in the French Quarter was built in 1826 for auctioneer Joseph LeCarpentier, designed by François Correjolles and built by James Lambert on land the Ursuline nuns had sold off the year before. It is now a museum, the BK Historic House and Gardens, tracing the residents who passed through it — wealthy French Creole owners and the people they enslaved, Confederate general P.G.T. Beauregard, the Italian immigrant families who followed the Civil War, and novelist Frances Parkinson Keyes.
the building
A Creole cottage in Greek Revival dress. Correjolles combined a Creole cottage plan with Greek Revival features, including a Palladian façade, while keeping Creole forms on the interior and rear elevation — a cabinet gallery and detached outbuildings — alongside the American convention of a central hall.
the style
The Palladian façade Correjolles gave the house's front reflects the Greek Revival taste sweeping New Orleans in the 1820s, even as the building's plan and rear rooms stayed rooted in local Creole cottage tradition.
More on Greek Revivalsignificance
The Beauregard-Keyes House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and today operates as a museum, the BK Historic House and Gardens, interpreting the successive households — Creole, enslaved, Confederate, immigrant, and literary — who lived there.
nearby
- Gallier House
- Old Ursuline Convent
- Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop
- Madame John's Legacy
- New Orleans Mint
- The Presbytere