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Micaela Leonarda Antonia de
Almonester Rojas y de la Ronde,
Baroness de
Pontalba (November 6, 1795 –
April 20, 1874) was a
wealthy New Orleans-born Creole...
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Andalusian family, as the son of Don
Miguel José de
Almonester and
Maria Juana Roxas de Estrada,
Almonester married, first,
Maria Paula Rita del
Rosario Martinez...
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charitable Bayou plantation owner, Don
Andres Almonester,
rebuilt the
Charity Hospital.
Earlier Almonester had
founded a leper's
hospital near the portage...
- four‑story
buildings built between 1849–1851 by the
Baroness Micaela Almonester Pontalba. The
ground floors house shops and restaurants; and the upper...
- p****ed
through a
series of owners. New Orleans-born
Baroness Micaela Almonester de
Pontalba purchased the
property in 1836, and by 1842, she had demolished...
- Parisian-style
landscaping remain intact from the
original design by
Micaela Almonester,
Baroness de Pontalba, in 1851. She also
built the
Pontalba Buildings...
- also
wrote the
libretto which is
loosely based on the life of
Micaela Almonester,
Baroness de Pontalba, a
prominent figure in 19th-century New Orleans...
- was
built by
Louis Visconti for the New Orleans–born
Baroness Micaela Almonester de
Pontalba between 1842 and 1855.
Edmond James de
Rothschild acquired...
- needed] The
buildings were
designed and
constructed by
Baroness Micaela Almonester Pontalba,
daughter of Don
Andres Almonaster y Rojas, a
prominent Spanish...
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Julie Euriphile de
Ternant (False River, Louisiana).
Portrait of
Micaela Almonester,
Baroness de Pontalba. 1841. The
Dubufe family in 1820 by Claude-Marie...
