JUAN QUESTAI BUILDING

CLOTHING STORE, SHOEMAKERS, SALOON, BARBER SHOP, PHOTO STUDIO.

1856 -1866

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Questai building (c1940s)

1851 Lot owned by James Whitburn.

1852 August - Juan Questai (or Cuesta or Questa) and wife Dahlia Escobar own the lot.

1855 January - a one story brick building is constructed.

1858 March - Meiss and Lippman move in, they have a clothing store, do not stay long.

1859 July - Glazier and Loud, shoemakers, rent.

1859 September - after a foreclosure on Questai, the building is purchased by Juan Laurent.

1861 November - the building sells to Jean Baptiste Maitrejean, Joseph Maitrejean and Rene Maussaud. John Preston has a shoe business, sharing the building with Glazier and Loud.

1862 July - the building sells to Dr. M. W. Parsons.

1866 April - Glazier leaves the business.

1867 The structure is joined to the Leavitt-Walker building, it is a saloon and barber shop at various times.

© Bancroft Library.
Questai building - c1942.
1946 George and Jesse Holloman live in building.

© Bancroft Library.
Questai building - c1952.
1954 State purchase from Frank Vassallo jr and Christine Marie Sartoris Martinez.

1968-69 (15 months) Lauriane Hartman (Corder) runs the St. Charles Saloon from this building until repairs were completed.

1971 Harry and Leslie Wright open Amor de Cosmos Daguerrean Photographic Studio in building.

Image by Wm. Dunniway & Co.
Daniel & Benjamin Wright in front of their studio.
2009 December 24 - The Wright's close due to economics.

see Columbia Photographers

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