The Devil's in the Details

 

Jonthan Davis 1726-1783

Vincent Coats 1737-1783 

Jonthan Davis and Vincent Coats, were two of New Orleans premiere architects  to have them draw up plans for an elegant antebellum mansion that would become home to Captain Gore. The two gentlemen, despite their often conflicting design ideas, put their creativity behind the project, even fulfilling Gore's unusual requests for secret rooms and hidden passageways within the mansion that lead to the adjacent graveyard. 

The secret passages, of course, were known only to Gore. What he used them for, to this day, is still speculated, though it is commonly assumed that he never truly lost contact with his old pirate mates, and used those hidden spots for whatever backroom business he had that kept him in money. Some have claimed that there were midnight meetings between Gore and some shady characters, usually precluded by exchanged lantern signals between the house and the riverbank.

Apparently, Mr. Coats and Mr. Davis had developed an odd rivalry during the construction of the house. Differences in design opinion had led them to quarrel often on the property during the building process. Davis was fanatical and artistic, while Coats was slow and created small details in each room. In the end, though, the two always seemed to reach a fair compromise. On the eve before Gore was supposed to move in, Coats and Davis entered the mansion together in the dead of night.

Once inside, the two were inside the wine cellar as they posted a toast to their success. However Coats had drugged David's wine and locked him up inside a coffin so that Coasts could have all the success to himself. But Davids had the last laugh, for had created a maze of endless halls, staircases that lead to nowhere and doors that opened to walls. To this day Mr Coats’s spirit wanders through the mansion’s endless halls. While Mr  Davids attempts to pry open the coffin that he was imprisoned in.