Laura (Carson) Brevoort (1789-1845)
Mrs Laura Elizabeth (Carson) Brevoort
She was born in Charleston, S.C. She hosted a fancy dress ball at her mansion on Fifth Avenue (see images) in 1840 which was billed as, "the most splendid social affair of the first half of the 19th century in New York." Philip Hone wrote down his memory of that night: "The mansion of our entertainers, Mr. and Mrs. Brevoort, is better calculated for such display than any other in the city. Mrs. Brevoort, in particular, by her kind and courteous deportment, threw a charm over the splendid pageant, which would have been incomplete without it. Never before has New York witnessed a fancy ball so splendidly gotten up, in better taste, or more successfully carried through.”
