Brevard-Rice House - New Orleans

The Brevard-Rice House is located on First Street in the New Orleans Garden District.  The two story Greek Revival style house dates to 1857, when it was constructed for merchant Albert Hamilton Brevard by James Calrow and Charles Pride.  The residence is known for it's transitional style, which also includes Italianate touches.  Most notable to visitors are the Ionic columns set upon by Corinthian columns which decorate the front of the home.  Brevard only lived here for two years before he passed away.  The house was sold ten years later by his daughter to the Reverend Emory Clapp.  In 1869 Pride was called back in by the Reverend to add two hexagonal bays to his newly acquired property.  After Clapp passed away his wife continued to live in the house until 1934.  In 1989 the house was purchased by author Ann Rice, on the heels of her publication of Queen of the Damned.  The first novel she wrote here was The Witching Hour (1990), in which the Brevard House serves as the ancestral home of the Mayfair witches.  The next 15 years saw the publication of much of her body of work, including The Tale of the Body Thief (1992), Lasher (1993), Taltos (1994), Memnoch the Devil (1995), Servant of the Bones (1996), Violin (1997), and Pandora (1998).   She continued to live here with her husband, poet Stan Rice until his death in 2002.  She remained here until 2004 when she sold the property.  The house is said to be haunted by Albert Hamilton.

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