ERNESTO CALDEIRA:

Ernesto Caldeira has been a New Orleans and Woodville, Mississippi resident since 1970. Over the years he has been involved in restorations from New York to New Orleans and in 1986 was a co-recipient of the Vieux Carre Honor Award for the restoration of 516 St. Philip Street in the French Quarter. His genealogy of the Davis family appeared in Volume IV of the Papers of Jefferson Davis, LSU Press, and Rice University. It involves his work as a partner in the restoration of Rosemont Plantation, the Davis family home in Woodville, Mississippi, since 1971.

He is active as Executive Director of the all volunteer Wilkinson County Museum in Woodville, recently served as a trustee of the Mississippi Heritage Trust for a six year term, a board member of the Friends of the Cabildo in New Orleans for which he won the outstanding volunteer award in 2000, and the board of the Vieux Carre Property Owners Resident & Associates Inc.

Prior to coming South he lived in New York City and was in the 1960's Associate Producer of the CBS-TV daytime drama Search for Tomorrow. He has lived in the French Quarter, where he has restored a Creole Cottage at 1022 Dauphine Street.

He has been a top producer for Dorian M. Bennett, Inc. since 1989 and is a Super Star Life Member of the New Orleans Realtors Association. For the last 20 plus years he has consistently ranked among the top 50 or so agents for sales in the New Orleans Metropolitan Association of Realtors annual list with over four thousand realtors.

His focus is on historic properties. He brings a lifetime of business experience and knowledge of the local scene to his active real estate practice.

DAVID ABNER SMITH:

David Abner Smith is a native of Woodville Mississippi and when he was ten years old he signed up as a junior volunteer for the Wilkinson County Museum as a guide for their big fund raiser that Spring.   That launched a lifetime of community service and involvement.

Ernesto and David began working together at the museum and have been real estate partners for most of the last decade.

David owns a guest-house in Woodville where he received the Mississippi Heritage Trust Preservation Award of Merit and where he has completed several federal rehabilitation tax credit projects. He also works with his family in several catering and restaurant operations in Woodville and in St. Francisville.  David has lived in the French Quarter but currently is living in the CBD.

In the Quarter he is a partner in the highly acclaimed EAT Restaurant and in the last couple of years he has partnered and launched two CBD restaurants on Lafayette Square . . . . .  Between the Bread and Café At the Square.

He graduated from Ole Miss and has served on the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Heritage Trust and has served as Chairman of the statewide jury of the "Ten Most Endangered Historic Sites" in Mississippi. He has served as state-wide Chairman of the Association of Local Historic Preservation Officials and just recently served as a member of the Board of Aldermen for the Town of Woodville. He is past Chairman of the Woodville Historic Preservation Commission and serves on the Board of Directors of the Wilkinson County Museum.

The old expression . . .If you want to get something done give it to a busy person  . . . works for this real estate team.

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