MESSRS. SULLY & SULLY, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
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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.
Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 415-416.
Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.