[1] Originally built in the early nineteenth century, it is a Poteaux-en-terre French Creole cottage with bousillage construction walls.

[3][4] First owner of land where the house is standing was Francois Frederic, who sold it to the free Creole of color, Augustin Metoyer in 1827.

Bishop Martin used the house as a mission convent for the Daughters of the Cross, a French order of teaching nuns.

After the death of Burdin, the property was acquired by George Lahaye in 1866, who sold it to Gristoffe Bussi, an Italian baker, in 1867.

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