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The Gin House is now a barn and stable. The old Milk Shed is still there and inside the house is sanitary fixtures. The vails are hung with canvasses of fish, birds, crabs, shrimp, etc., done by Coulon, a once famous artist of New Orleans. All of these paintings and modern conveniences were put here during the ownership of Mr. Baldwin.
The place now belongs to Mr. Alexander of New Orleans who has a stock farm and the house is occupied by the care takers, a middle-aged French family, Stoufflets. Young Mr. Staufflet's daughter with her four months old baby brings one suddenly to the present.
The house which has passed through so many hands stands a page from the early history of Hancock County.