1888: The CAPL liquidates after the Civil War. In 1888, CAPL sells the property to Antonio Augusti, a real estate investor and builder. He fully renovates the old bank building into an urban townhome suitable for a lodging house. The renovated three-bay house has a recessed entrance to a side-hall stair, nine rooms, two cisterns, gas lighting, and a new cast-iron gallery. 

1890s–1910s: The renovated house is used as a boardinghouse. 

1917–21: Genevieve Stewart operates a boardinghouse on the site, which is repeatedly raided by the police as a suspected brothel. In the fall of 1920, just a few months after the start of Prohibition, Miss Stewart’s is the subject of a sensationalist first-hand account of booze and prostitution published in the Times-Picayune. 

1965–67: Preservationist Clay Shaw buys the building to restore it to use. He sells the property two days before he is indicted on charges of conspiring to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. He is later found innocent.

1980: The Kemper and Leila Williams Foundation purchases the building, rejoining the property with the historic Merieult lot and the Williamses’ other French Quarter holdings. The new offices in the townhouse become home to the first computer used at the museum.