Marmouget Family & House, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Sandra McLellan, Nov. 2005
Special thanks to Jim Perrin for donating it to the archives.

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THE MARMOUGET HOUSE

BY JIM PERRIN, Local Historian

The stately home pictured here was the summer residence of New Orleans Judge and 
Mrs. Andrew P. Marmouget.  Many persons in "The City" who had the means purchased 
summer homes on the northshore to escape the noise and disease of New Orleans.  
Although many of these summer homes were built along the lakeshore in the 
Mandeville area, Judge Marmouget chose to build his second residence in the small 
town of Ponchatoula.  Judge Marmouget was born 25 Feb. 1858 in New Orleans to 
Andrew Marmouget (b. ca. 1821 in the Pyrenees area of France, d. June 1864 in New 
Orleans) the owner of a successful butcher shop in the city and Ellen Dorcey (b. 
ca. 1835 in southern Ireland). 

When he was a young man Andrew began working as a clerk in a store in New Orleans.  
He became a live stock commission merchant and operated a successful business in 
New Orleans' Ninth Ward.  He was elected to the New Orleans City Council to 
represent that area.  He was elected as the city's Second Recorder Judge in 1900 
and was reelected in 1904.  He declined to run for reelection in 1908 because of 
the severe political strife in the city between factions of the Democratic Party.

Andrew married 23 Sept. 1884 at St. Maurice Catholic Church in New Orleans to 
Marie Jeanne Fos.  Marie was born 28 Dec. 1860 in LA.  The Marmouget children 
were; Marie Angelie Amanda Zoe, b. 1885, m. Albert Sidney Johnston Hoover of 
Ponchatoula; Louisa Clare DeRichie, b. 1886, m. John H. Breffeilh; Joseph, b. Aug. 
1888; Inez Genevieve, b. 1891, m. William F. Levert; Andrew Edward, b. 1893; James 
Albert Marmouget, b. 1894, m. Lillie McGrath.

Judge Marmouget and his wife decided to built a summer home in Ponchatoula and 
purchased the land for the home in August 1906.  Designs and construction details 
were prepared by Frank Collom and Company, architects of New Orleans.  The house 
seems to have been constructed in the summer and fall of 1908 as the contract for 
the millwork was signed 28 Sept. 1908.  The Roseland Novelty Wood Works in 
Roseland, LA, received the contract for the mill work and furnished among other 
items, 24 columns for the porch, five fireplace mantels, fifteen interior doors, 
and wainscoting for the hallway.

One can only imagine the festive parties the teenaged and young adult Marmouget 
children may have enjoyed at their summer home in Ponchatoula.  After a few years 
the Judge and his wife moved from southern Louisiana to Shreveport.  The Judge was 
the owner of a shoe store in that city in 1920, and was working as a bookkeeper 
for a Shreveport firm in 1930.   Marie Fos Marmouget died in March 1936 in 
Shreveport, and the Judge died there in March 1939.  Both were buried in the St. 
Vincent de Paul Cemetery in New Orleans.

Anyone with comments, questions, or additional information about Ponchatoula's 
rich heritage may call Jim Perrin at 386-4476.