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This large, rambling house near Loranger, in Tangipahoa Parish, began as a one-anda-half-story frame structure built in 1829 as a retreat by lawyer, planter, and entrepreneur Alfred Hennen.
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It had a central-hall plan, brick exterior chimneys at each end, and a pitched roof. When Hennen’s daughter and son-in-law, Cora and John Morris, inherited the property, it became known as the Morris Retreat and later Mount Hennen.
In 1918 lumber magnates Charles H. and William L. Houlton purchased the property, renaming it Houltonwood. They already owned the former William Jay House and lumber company near Madisonville.
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In 1928, the Houltons sold Houltonwood to Samuel Zemurray, a Russian Jewish immigrant who had made his fortune importing bananas from Central America. Zemurray also had previously purchased a house from William Jay: a mansion on prestigious Audubon Place in New Orleans.
The major renovation and expansion begun by the Houltons was continued by the Zemurrays.
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