Tour the Rooms of the Cotton Brokers' Houses, New Orleans B&B's

Four guest rooms: two with private, full baths; and two others that share a full, hall bath and a connecting, private sitting room. A telephone and bath robes are provided in each. Rates are for single or double occupancy. The rooms are named for the Benachi children.

You can hear the garden fountain play from this first floor room that adjoins the rear gallery and kitchen. Convenient access to the parking area. The antique furnishings include a Rococo Revival dresser and American Victorian mahogany double bed. Private adjoining hall bath.

Rumor has it that one owner was interested in hot air ballooning, and assembled his balloons in this second floor room, located in a wing of the main house. Furnishings are all 19th Century American, including a Renaissance Revival dresser, carved Victorian double bed and writing desk. Additional conveniences are private entrance and bath, walk-in closet and television. A/C and heat by window unit.

Guests in Marie's Room, on the second floor at the front of the house, enjoy a view of the garden and use of the grand balcony, where outdoor seating is provided. Furnished with reproduction antiques, including double bed, armchair and writing desk. For parties travelling together it is available as a suite with Irene's Room, with which it shares a full hall bath and private, connecting sitting room, with cable television.

The afternoon light in this generously proportioned, second floor room filters through a giant Sycamore, the largest of the seven major trees on the property. Furnished with reproduction antiques, including a Queen size bed and love seat. For parties travelling together it is available as a suite with Marie's Room, with which it shares a full hall bath and private, connecting sitting room, with cable television.

The Villa's suites are known by the style of furnishings we have chosen: Aesthetic, Golden Oak, Eastlake and Renaissance, all with private baths. For single or double occupancy the three larger suites are available for $135 per night. The sitting rooms of the three larger suites may accommodate a third or four guest at a charge of $25 per night, per person.

The smaller suites, Renaissance and Eastlake II, at the rear of the house on the second floor, are offered at $125 per night, single or double occupancy. Each features a sitting room and bedroom.

This first floor accommodation features a matching walnut and burl walnut double bed, marble-top dresser and mirrored armoire, all in the Aesthetic taste, and crafted by J. W. Davis, Louisville, KY, c. 1885. In its sitting room is a brass and iron double bed, marble-top washstand, serpentine-front tiger oak chest and carved Victorian sofa.

The ensemble here features a matching marble-top dresser and washstand, mirrored armoire and double bed, all with a rich golden patina and Renaissance carvings. Its sitting room includes a three-quarter size Victorian bed, loveseat and armchair.

Contains an excellent example of the carved oak furniture that has come to exemplify in America the style popularized by Charles Eastlake in England in 1880. The restored, matching set consists of marble-top dresser and washstand, mirrored armoire and half-tester (canopied) bed with custom-made mattress that is larger than a double but somewhat smaller than a queen. Its sitting room contains an American Renaissance walnut sofa and "lady's" chair, and a bird-eye maple double bed and matching dresser.

Features a walnut and burl walnut two-door armoire and matching dresser with white marble top (c. 1880), a recamier, and an Empire Revival chest. The bed is antique brass.

Guests will enjoy the American Renaissance Revival walnut armoire (c. 1880) and dresser, and its American Renaissance half-tester (canopied) carved walnut bed (c 1870). The sitting room contains a walnut loveseat and comfortable side chair.