Business of	MESSRS. SULLY & SULLY, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller January 1999

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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.