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Audubon State Historic Site is a state park property in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, between the towns of St. Francisville and Jackson. It is the location where noted ornithologist and artist John James Audubon spent the summer of 1821. Visitors come to see Oakley Plantation house, where Audubon lived at the time, and the surrounding ...
The Audubon Plantation is a Southern plantation with a historic mansion located at 21371 Hoo Shoo Too Road, Baton Rouge, Louisiana . The house was completed in c.1850 but origins of Audubon plantation remains quite obscure. A reference to Audubon can be found in the Statement of the Sugar Crop for 1892. At that time the plantation owner was ...
Had been Francis Routh's cotton plantation; and the land is now part of the Louisiana State Penitentiary. [4] 82000469. Ardoyne Plantation House. November 1, 1982. Houma. Terrebonne. 80004476. Arlington Plantation.
John James Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin, April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-American self-trained artist, naturalist, and ornithologist. His combined interests in art and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictorial record of all the bird species of North America. [1] He was notable for his extensive studies ...
4.5 miles east of St. Francisville at Audubon State Historic Site. 30°47′48″N 91°18′26″W. / 30.796667°N 91.307222°W / 30.796667; -91.307222 ( Oakley Plantation House) St. Francisville. John James Audubon worked here as Eliza Pirrie's art tutor, for four months in 1821. He painted 32 of his famous Birds of America during ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Mississippi that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Uptown is a section of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, on the east bank of the Mississippi River, encompassing a number of neighborhoods (including the similarly-named and smaller Uptown area) between the French Quarter and the Jefferson Parish line. It remains an area of mixed residential and small commercial properties, with a wealth ...
Koch led the architectural preservation of Oakley Plantation House (now part of the Audubon State Historic Site) in St. Francisville, Louisiana. The project was carried out from 1950 to 1953 under Koch's direction, using penal labor from the Louisiana State Penitentiary for the actual workmanship.