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Black plaque № 44671

New Orleans, LA, United States

Black plaque № 44671

Tara. Erected in 1941 for businessman George J. Palmer (1897-1977) and his wife Juliette Wehrmann Palmer (1907-1980), who modeled their family home after the fictitious O'Hara residence in the 1939 film "Gone with the Wind". Andrew M. Lockett, Jr. was the architect. Cornelius Hurst developed this ar

ea as Hurstville in 1832. It was the first of the uptown faubourgs. In 1894 the William J. O'Donnell residence was built on this site after designs by Southron R. Duval. Jackson Brewing Company presid

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