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From the 1938 Federal Writers' Project of the WPA for the City of New Orleans:
THE HELEN PITKIN SCHERTZ HOUSE 1300 MOSS ST., often referred to as the Spanish Custom House because it was supposed to have been a storage place for contraband goods confiscated from the pirates who ran their boats up the bayou, is one of the best preserved and most attractive of the city's old plantation homes. Built about 1784, it is one of the West Indian style type of plantation dwellings, broad galleries permitting free circulation of air through the original two rooms on each floor. The first floor is of plastered brick, with Pompeian brick columns supporting the gallery; the second story with its wooden gallery and slanting roof is contructed of wood. The two dormer windows in the American Colonial style were probably added later. A narrow outer stairway leads to the second floor at one end of the gallery. A floor of slate flagging overlays the original brick flooring, and an additional room has been added along the rear of the house."
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