Hey Blake,
There is a faded sign advertising what looks like some sort of “pills” on the rear of the Upper Pontalba apartment building facing Decatur Street. What can you tell us about it?
Although that faded sign is painted on one of the city’s most historic properties, the Upper Pontalba Building, it advertises a product that was available all over the country, not just in New Orleans: Dr. Tutt’s Liver Pills.
First, a bit of history on the building itself: The Upper and Lower Pontalba buildings are named for their developer, Micaela Almonester, Baroness de Pontalba. Her father, Don Andrés Almonester y Roxas, was one of the richest men in Spanish colonial Louisiana…