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1923
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Redemptorist Fathers buy Claiborne Cottage for use as a school (Notre Dame de Bon Secours)
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1929
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Bradish Johnson House acquired by the McGehee School for Girls; stables are converted to a cafeteria; carriage house becomes a gymnasium
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1938
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George Hitchens Terriberry (King of Carnival in 1940) buys the Pritchard House for $16,000
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4 Oct 1941-1956
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Anne Rice lives at 2301 St. Charles Ave., the rented home of her maternal grandmother Alice Allen, for her first 14 years
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c. 1950-2014
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House is divided into two apartments
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1951
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William Haspel commissions architect Richard Koch to transform carriage house into residence
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1953
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Claiborne Cottage becomes a convent for the Sisters of Mercy
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1963
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Lewis House renovated and enlarged
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21 Jun 1971
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Garden District added to National Register of Historic Places
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30 May 1974
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Garden District designated a National Historic Landmark
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1975
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Bay window of the Cornstalk Fence Mansion appears in Brian De Palma's film Obsession
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c. 1990
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Dr. John Pigott restores the Pritchard House
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1995
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Novelist Anne Rice purchases Claiborne Cottage with her husband Stan Rice
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15 Oct 1997
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Publication of Violin by Anne Rice, a ghost story set in her home at Claiborne Cottage
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2014
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McGehee School acquires house at 2318 St. Charles, naming it Mathilde Bernard Villere Hall
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Oct 2015-2016
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Extensive renovations by architecture firm Jahncke and Burns transform the house into eight classrooms for young children
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Aug 2016
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Mathilde Bernard Villere Hall opens to McGehee Little Gate students
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Sep 2016
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McGehee School named Preservationists of the Year by the Foundation for Historic Louisiana
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2018
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Scott Rodger (producer/manager for Paul McCartney and Andrea Bocelli) buys the Cornstalk Fence Mansion, sight unseen
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c. 2019
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Extensive interior decoration by Gwen Driscoll in various modern styles; a pool is added
