Realtor Cheryl Ellsworth

Cheryl is a preserver member of the Preservation Resource Center helping to maintain the integrity and architecture of her birth city.  She served as a board member for the New Orleans Film Society as well as the Constance-Carter Foundation.  Currently, she is an active member of The Junior League of New Orleans.  She finds tranquility at her family ranch located in Poplarville, Mississippi where she spends time with her various animals and nurturing her apple and stone fruit orchard and gardens.   

As editor-in-chief of Friday on the Farm, a bi-weekly e-newsletter, about farm life, she journals the activities of gardening, growing, feeding, and ranching.  Bringing all her creations from farm to table, she draws on her informal creole culinary training of her mother, aunts and professional chef friends. Cheryl has a passion for horses since her childhood and took up equestrian as a sport with the death of her father at 29.  Additionally, having spent countless hours watching her Tee-Tee raise chickens, and Uncle Dan eating breakfast and heading straight to his weekend chore; working cattle on Cane River in Natchitoches, she began to think of her perfect life.

With a passion for all sports from football to NASCAR, she has enjoyed a successful career managing the lives of professional athletes and attending some of the finest sporting events in the world.  In addition, she has planned some of the most esteemed corporate events, social events and weddings.   

Her real estate venture marries her city and country lifestyle and further serves to feed her passion to create sustainability within a regenerated biodiverse ecosystem; using soil as the superpower.  She has a love affair with preserving her southern culinary roots through the preservation and planting of heritage seeds and attends the annual Washington Parish Fair in Franklinton religiously. This is where she visits with the town locals and Master Gardener, John Coykendall of Blackberry Farms.  

Living and spending her most precious moments all over Louisiana and Mississippi, affords her the unique ability to guide her clients to the lifestyles of their dreams.  “I left my family home in New Orleans East in my twenties, during what would be my final year at Tulane to a one-bedroom in the Orphanage apartment complex on Magazine Street.  I then bought my first home, a Preservation Resource Center owned property on First Street in the Irish Channel. With hopes of becoming a developer, I restored a beautiful Greek Revival home and sold it to a New Orleans Saints player. After settling into my professional career in marketing, I moved to a 7-acre property in Abita Springs on Camellia Road, just across the road from Money Hill.  Taking up two residences for the first time, I leased in River Ridge, Jefferson Parish.  Following, I  bought my second home in Esplanade Ridge on Bayou St. John- a quaint converted camelback cottage that sits next to it’s identical twin on Vignaud Street named after Henry Vignaud - born in 1830 in New Orleans under the name Jean-Héliodore Vignaud.  Both homes were built and gifted by him to his two daughters."

After Katrina, Cheryl spent hours gardening in a tiny 2 foot by 8-foot section between the porch stoops.  Every Sunday after mass at Our Lady of the Rosary, she would bring in home-grown vegetables from her tiny French manicured garden.  She combined with  her gathered loot the finest of meats, cheeses, and breads made at Terranova Grocery.  Mrs. Karen, her husband, daughter and son are one the greatest treasures of the ridge.  The exquisite French meals and baked pastries she would share with her friend and neighbor Patsy and her young son Julian until they eventually moved.  "Their cottage was then occupied by who I later came to know as Aunt Tish, Chef Leah Chase’s sister."

In 2013, and after moving back home from living a year in Louisville, KY., Cheryl took residence in the newly developed Rice Mill Lofts, owned by her friend Sean Cummings.  She spent most evenings gazing out the beautiful large windows that overlooked the river with a finely-aged Bordeaux.  Enamored by the scarlet of the Jax Brewery signage, she named her dog Dax.  In need of office space, she leased an office in the uptown Garden District across from the eloquent Lilette restaurant and her name was up in blue lights; ELLSWORTH - an events production and sports capital firm.  

Yearning a downtown living experience, she then moved her primary residence to a condominium above Donald Link’s, Pêche, a restaurant on the corner of  Julia and Camp Street.  "I reminisce still today over the freshness of the salty oysters, a bowl of dark roux gumbo with a hint of southern okra, fried bread with sprinkled sea salt, hushpuppies and for my entrée’, smothered catfish.  I always accompany this meal with the Hemingway Daiquiri with crushed ice.  It reminds me of a snowball."

Hovering over her still, dreams of a more purpose-driven life and with influence of friends in nearby Carriere, Mississippi, she decided to develop family land a few highway exits up in Poplarville; uniquely positioned next to and across from Harry Connick, Sr. and Harry Connick, Jr.’s land estates and ranch. Warming to her heart, this land, as her grandfather August Oliver Ellsworth and Harry Sr. were close friends and played piano together all their years in New Orleans.  Her grandfather was a contractor and mason by trade, and is known for building historic properties in New Orleans such as, Epiphany School and Corpus Christi Church in the Seventh Ward.    

It is here at her farm with her closest friends, twenty three heritage bred chickens, shipped to her from the hills of Calabasas, California, is where she found her heaven on earth. Her ducks and chickens greet her every morning with the finest blue, green, cream, brown, tan and chocolate-colored eggs. 

Let me help you realize your lifestyle dreams with your first, second or third home. FIND YOUR DREAM. FIND YOUR LIFE. My team of financial experts, land developers, architects, interior designers, contractors, landscapers, ranchers, farmers, horticulturalist, and artists are waiting for you.   Call me +1.805.770.0484

                              Louisiana License #995709596                       

                                 Mississippi License #S-57501