Destrehan Plantation

Common card · No. 471868

Destrehan Plantation (French: Plantation Destrehan; Spanish: Plantación Destrehan) is an antebellum mansion in the French colonial style modified with Greek Revival architectural elements. It is located in southeast Louisiana, near the town of Destrehan, about 22 miles west of New Orleans. It was established during the period of Spanish rule (once occupied by French until 1763) between 1787 and 1790, which heavily integrated building styles and structural strategies adapted from Saint-Domingue (Haiti) by the French and Cuba by the Spanish, between the migration networks were deeply tied. During the 19th century, the plantation was a major producer of indigo and then sugarcane. The home is most commonly associated with its second owner, Jean-Noël Destréhan, who served briefly as the first United States senator from Louisiana in 1812. He was influential in the transition of the Orleans Territory to statehood. The house is a unique example of a plantation home outliving the oil refinery that...

Read on Wikipedia · Image Photo by Michael Overton., CC BY-SA 3.0