Draft:Thomas Sully (architect)

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Thomas Sully (November 24, 1855- March 15, 1939) was an architect in New Orleans. He was the most important architect in New Orleans at the end of the 19th century. His works include the Hennen Building and Poplar Grove Plantation (Louisiana).

He was born in Mississippi City, Mississippi. He was the son of G. W. Sully. He was named after his great uncle, portrait painter Thomas Sully. He was raised in New Orleans and worked in Austin Texas and New York City early in his career. In 1877 he returned to New Orleans and in 1881 he established his firm.

He formed the firm Sulley & Toledano with Albert Toledano in 1887. Toledano went on to design several notable buildings in the city. Sully returned to solo practice afterwards and then formed Sully, Burton & Stone. He retired in 1906.

His firm designed a top floor penthouse office addition to the Hennen Building where they designed their office. It replaced a rooftop garden.

He served as the first president of the Louisiana State Association of Architects, a chapter of the American Institute of Architects established in 1887.

New Orleans architect Sam Stone, who went on to form Stone Brothers with his sons, began his career working at Sully's firm.

A boating aficionado, he was commodore of the Southern Yacht Club in New Orleans for two terms, was photographed on his yacht Helen, and designed boats.

Was he on the board of Morgan State Bank?

The Southeastern Architectural Archive at Tulane University has documents related to Sully in its collection.

He lived at 4010 St. Charles Avenue.

Work

 * Columns Hotel (1883)
 * Poplar Grove Plantation (Louisiana) (1884)
 * 4010 St. Charles Avenue (1886), the home he built for his family
 * Sully Mansion at 2631 Prytania Street, now a bed & breakfast
 * Four St. Mary Street Lower Garden District homes
 * Ellermann-Core House at 1234 Henry Clay Avenue (1895)
 * Sully-Wormouth House at 1531 South Carrollton Avenue (1901), he lived in the home until 1915
 * Confederate Memorial Hall Museum (1890)
 * Valence Street Baptist Church
 * Hennen Building (1893)
 * Frank T. Howard No. 1 School and Elizabeth F. Howard Kindergarten
 * 2525 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans‎
 * 2727 St. Charles Avenue, a bed & breakfast
 * 6000 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans‎
 * Abita Springs Pavilion‎
 * 17 Richmond Place
 * Medical Building at 124-126 Baronne Street
 * Gulfport Yacht Club clubhouse (1903)
 * The Orphanage at 3000 Magazine Street in New Orleans (1887), originally built as an orphanage in the wake of a Yellow Fever epidemics it is now an apartment buidling
 * New Orleans National Bank at 201 Camp Street
 * 3811 St. Charles Avenue
 * St. Charles Hotel (third) (1896)
 * 1305 South Carrollton Avenue in New Orleans
 * 7 Richmond Place
 * Howard Memorial Hall