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Before Milne was built in the 1930's, part of it was called the Colored Waif's Home for Boys, the institution where Louis Armstrong was incarcerated at age 11 after firing a pistol to celebrate New Year's Day 1913. Armstrong was born to a teenage mother in a neighborhood so notoriously dangerous, even by New Orleans' rough port-town standards, that it was called the battlefield. He was largely abandoned by his father and dropped out of grade school, and entertained people by singing and dancing for change around the brothels of Storyville. Armstrong wrote about Mr. Davis in his memoir, "Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans." He wrote that every day he practiced faithfully on the lesson Mr. Davis gave him.