This was the home of Judge Francois-Xavier Martin, first Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court and author of the first history of Louisiana. He lived here from 1816 to 1826. The present Victorian structure dates from circa 1850 and retains a cast-iron fence representing stalks and ears of corn intertwined with morning glory vines and blossoms. There is only one other like it in the city. This fence was cast in Philadelphia by the Wood & Perot foundry, and shipped by sea to New Orleans to Dr. Joseph Secondo Biarmenti, who bought the house in 1834 and erected the fence.