Architecture
Ardoyne Plantation
Ardoyne is the most elaborate and romantic-looking Gothic Revival residence surviving in Louisiana.
Ardoyne is the most elaborate and romantic-looking Gothic Revival residence surviving in Louisiana.
Although Bocage's early history is hazy, local tradition has maintained that the house was built in 1801 by Emanuel Marius Pons Bringier as a wedding gift for his fourteen-year-old daughter, Françoise.
The Butler Greenwood plantation house is built in the Gothic Revival style, popular in the St. Francisville area.
Chrétien Point, the center of the Civil War's Battle of Buzzard's Prairie in 1863, is rumored to have been spared when its owner, Hypolite Chrétien II, gave the Masonic sign.
Andrew Jackson was entertained at Cottage Plantation while en route to Natchez after the Battle of New Orleans.
Established in 1787, Destrehan Plantation is the oldest documented plantation in the lower Mississippi Valley.
The architecture of Glencoe Plantation in Louisiana is unusually elaborate and resembles an illustration from a child's fairy-tale book.
The massive Greek Revival plantation house is a modern replica of the original structure at Greenwood which burned to the ground in 1960.
The Barrow family built Highland Plantation in antebellum St. Francisville, Louisiana.
Houmas House Plantation in Darrow is an excellent example of the peripteral type of Greek Revival architecture in which the main structure is surrounded by grand columns, each with an uninterrupted span from ground level to the roofline.
Laura Lacoul Gore, the namesake of Laura Plantation, left a memoir that proved to be an important resource for the restoration of the house.
The plantation chapel at Live Oaks, built for the enslaved workers in 1840, is the last to survive in Louisiana.
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