Pitot House, historic house museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

The Pitot House is an 18th-century Creole colonial country home at 1440 Moss Street on Bayou St. John. It has a double-pitched hipped roof and walls of brick-between-post construction covered in plaster. The plan is ensuite, with no hallways and an outdoor stairway; doors face each other for cross-ventilation, and galleries on both levels shade the walls.

Don Bartólome Bosque, a Spanish colonial official, built the house in 1799 as a country retreat on Bayou St. John; one source dates it to 1790 and names Don Santiago Lorreins as builder. From 1805 to 1810 Madame Rillieux, Edgar Degas' great-grandmother, enclosed the ground floor in soft brick and added a southern gallery. James Pitot, its fourth owner, lived here from 1810 to 1819. In 1964 the Louisiana Landmarks Society saved it from demolition and moved it several blocks.

The house is named for James Pitot, its fourth owner, who lived here from 1810 to 1819 and served as mayor of New Orleans in 1804–1805; he was a French native naturalized as an American before arriving in 1796. Inside, the only artifact owned by a past resident is a portrait of his daughter, Sophie Gabrielle.

The house stands at 1440 Moss Street, a few yards from the site of the old bayou bridge over Bayou St. John. The Louisiana Landmarks Society, which owns the building and uses it as its headquarters, opens the house and parterre garden to visitors; the 10,000-square-foot yard beside it hosts parties and events. The garden is laid out to be viewed from the upper gallery.

The Pitot House stands within yards of the old bayou bridge site where Governor Claiborne ordered troops in 1811 to let no enslaved people cross during the German Coast Uprising, said by some historians to be the largest slave revolt on American soil.