Architecture
Oaklawn Manor Plantation
Oaklawn Manor, on Bayou Teche, was originally owned by Irish-born lawyer Alexander Porter whose ancestry gave this area the name Irish Bend.
Karen Kingsley
Architecture
Old Arsenal Museum
The Old Arsenal was constructed in 1838 for the Baton Rouge military post, the main ordinance depot for the southwestern United States.
Architecture
Old Governor's Mansion
Huey P. Long ordered the construction of the Old Governor's Mansion in 1929, replacing the first Governor's Mansion which was built in 1857.
Architecture
Our Lady Queen of Heaven Church
Our Lady Queen of Heaven Church's modern design was made possible in large part by the parish priest, Monsignor Irving DeBlanc, who persuaded his parishioners that a contemporary building would best serve changes in liturgy made by Vatican Council II.
Architecture
Pentagon Barracks
Built in 1819 as a fortification against the Spanish and slave insurrections, today the Pentagon Barracks house a museum, apartments, and the lieutenant governor's office.
Architecture
Plaquemine Lock
The Bayou Plaquemine Lock once allowed ships to pass from the Mississippi River through the bayou to Louisiana's interior.
Architecture
Poplar Grove Plantation
The Poplar Grove Plantation house was originally built for the 1884 World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans before being transported on a barge to Port Allen.
Architecture
Promised Land Plantation
Leander Perez purchased Promised Land in 1925 and occupied the plantation house until the early 1960s.
Architecture
Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site
Rosedown Plantation in Louisiana is one of the most intact and well-documented examples of a plantation complex in the South.
Architecture
San Francisco Plantation
The San Francisco Plantation name is derived from the term "sans fruscins" meaning "without a cent" or "having lost everything," possibly alluding to the high cost of the house.
Schools of Nursing
Buildings that served as training centers for nurses conveyed an impression of order and discipline
Architecture
Shadows-on-the-Teche Plantation
Until artist Weeks Hall donated Shadows-on-the-Teche to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1958, the New Iberia property had been in the Weeks family since the original Spanish land grant in 1792.
