Since 1994 the Pavilion of the Two Sisters has been the venue of countless weddings, parties, and meetings but few in
attendance know who it was named for. The sisters are its benefactors Marion Wadsworth Harvey (1900-1982) and Erminia Wadsworth
(1910-2000).
Erminia, the Newman School Librarian and close friend of Ruth Dreyfous, was asked by Felix
to plan the Delgado Museum library which included a book restoration room and research area (pictured are some of the museums
rare books in 1953). She was a member of the Intellectual Freedom Committee of the Louisiana Library Association and benefactor
of St. Mary's Dominican High School's Library and Technology Center.
Marion was the wife of Herbert
Joseph Harvey, Sr.; one of his ancestors dug the Harvey Canal, another owned Destrehan Plantation. As a widow in 1969,
Marion
and her son Herbert Joseph Harvey, Jr. established the Azby Fund with assets in real estate, timber, oil and gas worth approximately
$15,000,000. The fund is named for last male heir of the Destrehan family, Nicholas Azby Destrehan, who had grown up on the
plantation. (LDL)