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| LOUISE BERO
Louise Bero was born in France about 1838 and came to New Orleans as a young girl. In 1862, she married Victor Bero, a native of Belgium, who rose to fame as a chef and restaurateur in New Orleans in the 1880’s and 1890’s. He opened Restaurant Victor at 209 Bourbon Street in 1874. In 1905, after Victor’s death, his friend Jules Galatoire took over the location and opened his own restaurant, which continues to thrive at that address today. |
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Sometime in the mid-1890s, Mrs. Bero took a lease on the property at 105 Customhouse and opened the Hotel Victor. In 1892, the hotel moved to the nearby Monteleone Building at the corner of Customhouse and Royal. The 1894 Book of the Chamber of Commerce described Mrs. Bero’s establishment: “The Hotel Victor . . . is also a favorite resort for the traveling commercial man. It is a new house of modern appointments, run on the European plan, by an experienced hostess, Mrs. Louise Bero, who has had a house on this site or near it for ten years. The Victor has baths on every floor, reading room, elevator, electric lights, and every comfort and convenience. Its rates are $1 to $3 a day.” When Louise died in September, 1897, her husband allowed the lease and the contents of the hotel to be sold. This photograph of the Hotel Victor was published in 1894. The site is now occupied by part of the Hotel Monteleone.
(The City of New Orleans. Book of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Louisiana and Other Public Bodies of the “Crescent City”, 1894) |