Business of MESSRS. SULLY & SULLY, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller January 1999 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** With the increase in population, refinement and wealth in the principal portions of the United States, has risen a growing demand for the blending of the artistic and beautiful with the utilitarian in architecture. The result has been extremely gratifying to the advocates of progress in this most vitally important profession. Among those who have acquired a wide reputation for their great skill and artistic conception as architects, ranks the firm of Messrs. Sully & Toledano, New Orleans, La,. This company was established in 1882, and the individual members, Thomas Sully and Albert Toledano, are rising young men of marked professional attainments and great promise. They commenced operation and construction on some of the finest buildings in the city of New Orleans and among the many specimens of their skill as architects may be mentioned the New Orleans National Bank building, Whitney National Bank building, Morris building, A Baldwin & Co. building, the American Sugar Refining Company building, the Brooklyn Cooperage building and five private residences for the following gentlemen: J. Newman, J. Hernshein, S. Hernshein, P. O. Fazende, Henry Abraham, Julian Pecard, John A. Wallis, H. T. Howard, also many others, and a large business throughout the country, viz.: Caffery Centre Sugar Refinery at Franklin, La.; the Vicksburg hotel at Vicksburg, Miss.; the residence of Mayor Millsaps in Jackson, Miss.; a fine hotel at Tuscaloosa, Ala.; the Lookout Inn on Lookout Mountain, Tenn.; the Richardson office building in Chattanooga, Tenn., contains about 300 offices. In the same city they erected a flue residence for E. Walkins. The company is now erecting a ten story office building in New York city, at the corner of Brood & Barn streets, in which they are associated with Young & Cable. The senior member of the firm, Thomas Sully, was born in Mississippi City, Miss., November, 1855, and is a son of G. W. and Harriet J. (Green) Sully, both native Virginians. The father was a cotton merchant and followed that occupation all his life. Thomas Sully was reared in St. Tammany parish, La., and was educated at Dr. Sander's school, New Orleans. He first worked at his profession in Austin, Tex., then New Orleans and was afterward with J. M. Slade and others in New York city. He returned to New Orleans in 1882 and the present company was established. In 1884 Mr. Sully married Miss Jennie Roochi, daughter of John Rocchi, an old and very prominent merchant of New Orleans. One child, Jennett, is the result of this union. Mr. Sully is a member of the Boston and Pickwick clubs of New Orleans. The junior member of the firm, Albert Toledano, is a native of Louisiana, born in St. John Baptist parish in 1858, and is a son of Jules and Apolline (Boudousqui ) Toledano. He was educated in New Orleans, learned his profession there, and for several years traveled in the large cities of this country, gathering ideas which have made him prominent in his calling. Mr. Toledano was married in 1886 to Miss Anna Wogan of New Orleans, daughter of O. N. Wogan, a large sugar planter. He is a member of the Boston and Pickwick clubs of New Orleans. Source: Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 415-416. Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.