Henry Howard (architect)

Henry Howard
Born	February 8, 1818 Cork, Ireland
Died	November 25, 1884 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Cause of death	paralysis
Occupation	Architect
Spouse(s)	Miss Richards
Children	11

Henry Howard (1818-1884) was an Irish-born American architect. Over the course of four decades, he designed over 280 buildings in Louisiana, including several plantation houses in the Antebellum era. After the war, he designed many townhouses in New Orleans.

Henry Howard was born on February 8, 1818 in Cork, Ireland. He emigrated to the United States in 1836, first in New York City. Within a year, he joined his brother in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Howard first worked as a builder/carpenter in New Orleans, where he built residential stairs. He was employed by architect James H. Dakin and Henry Molhausen. A few years later, he completed the Pontalba Buildings, started by James Gallier.

By 1848, he designed the Madewood Plantation near Napoleonville.

He went on to design several other plantations, like the Nottoway Plantation (1859), the largest surviving plantation house in the South), Belle Alliance Plantation, the Indian Camp Plantation House (1859) in Iberville Parish, the Edgewood Plantation (1859) in Natchez, Mississippi, and the Belmont Plantation in St. James Parish.

Howard also designed townhouses like the Samuel W. Logan House, the Robert H. Short House and the Goldsmith-Godchaux House (1859). The Goldsmith-Godchaux House is significant for its painted interiors. Has more fresco wall decoration and stenciling than probably any other mid-nineteenth century residence in the South. (Marker by Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, 1980)

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