Henrietta delle

Henrietta Delle sits as a bright yellow house with wide, louvered shutters and a deep front porch on the corner of Saint Philip Street. It belongs to the Treme neighborhood and functions as a private residence, though it earned a place in local records for the woman who owned it during the eighteen eighties. Henrietta Delle kept this home while working as a dressmaker, navigating a city that strictly constrained the lives and property rights of free women of color before the Civil War.