According to that directory, the building that is now Lafitte’s Blacksmith was owned by a C.
I processed the Sanborn survey of 1897 for the City Archives in fact, they said I could keep the photocopies of the Sanborn file they sent me and they are still in my library and I still refer to them frequently. ( Click here for more information on Sanborn Maps.) Their documentation is very thorough and extremely complete - detailing the buildings, their addresses (and in New Orleans they include the buildings' old and new addresses, which is valuable when one is researching a building prior to the address renumbering in 1895), their construction, who owned them and (most importantly) how they were used. There was a cartography firm called Sanborn that made maps and surveys in cities around the country for use in fire insurance.
