The Sidney and Sarah Russell House

Eliza Smith, a pre-civil war “free woman of color,” purchased property on St. Catherine Street in the 1850s. Her daughters and their families built new houses on the property in the 1880s. The home at 28 St. Catherine Street was the home of Sarah Smith Russell and her children. Son Louis Kastor became one of the city’s most successful African American businessmen and built a house across the street that became Webb Funeral Home.