Tag: Frederick G. Hudson

• 2025

  Sycamore Hall Burns

  What got me interested in researching today’s post and next week’s two posts was thumbing through the Genealogy Department’s copy of Sycamore Hall by Sylvester Breard on Wednesday. I am…
• 2020

  Portraits in the Collection of the Louisiana Law Library

  Did you know that several prominent Monroe names have portraits in the Louisiana Law Library? Some of them have been put online. John Theodore Ludeling, Monroe lawyer and Chief Justice…
• 2018

  Sycamore Hall: Monroe’s Lost Mansion

  In 1868, John Theodore Ludeling, Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court, built a mansion on Riverside Drive (known as Front Street then), at what is now Hudson Lane. It…