A historic New Orleans home originally owned by the architect who designed the Superdome and that was featured in both Life Magazine and Architectural Digest is back on the market. It also recently made one of social media’s most-watched real estate accounts.
Zillow Gone Wild featured the Uptown property on its social media accounts Wednesday, calling the home, listed at $2.2 million and located in the shadows of Tulane and Loyola universities, a “perfect MCM.”
The the 4,000-square-foot house, situated mere steps from Audubon Park at 6161 Marquette Place, features four bedrooms, six bathrooms and a saltwater pool in its backyard.
Built in 1963 for Nathaniel “Buster” and Frances Curtis and their seven children, the innovative house was photographed and featured in Life Magazine two years later. Curtis, the architect who famously designed the Superdome and hundreds of other buildings across the globe, designed the home to accommodate his large family and love of hosting guests.
The home of Frances and Nathaniel C. Curtis Jr. was featured in the March 12, 1965 issue of Life magazine.
The home of Frances and Nathaniel C. Curtis Jr. was featured in the March 12, 1965 issue of Life magazine.
According to Life Magazine’s 1960s account of the home, the Curtis children hosted slumber parties for up to 20 girls in the house’s main six-foot wide hallway, which their mother called the home’s “main street.”
One child took to swinging on the home’s entry gate, made of old French Quarter balcony iron, for fun in his free time. All family members enjoyed the home’s four walled-in patios, around which the home was designed.
“There is also enough closet and storage space to hide everybody’s possessions and maybe an elephant besides,” Life Magazine said of the home in its 1965 piece, “Patio Behind Walls.”
Buster Curtis lived in the house until his death at 79 in 1997, and his wife, Frances Curtis, moved out of the house in 2013 at age 93. She died in 2015.
In 2010, the property was designated a city landmark, and in 2014, it became the city’s first modern house listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The house has only had three owners since it was built, according to the listing, including architect Lee Ledbetter and Doug Meffert.
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