Historic Plantation Tours

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Throughout the years men from elsewhere have come to West Feliciana. Their reasons for coming were as varied as the houses they built; homes that can be seen as monuments to the lives they made for themselves here.

  • Audubon SHS

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    Audubon State Historic Site


    Oakley House

    Oakley was built by a Scot, James Pirrie, whose wife Lucy hired Audubon as a tutor for their daughter Eliza. When the artist arrived in June 1821, the "hall and parlor" house with its cooling jalousies was at its prime. Since 1947 it has been the centerpiece of Audubon State Historic Site.

  • Highland

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    Highland Plantation

    Highland Plantation was built in 1804 by William Barrow III.  Built in the Carolina I style of cypress that was milled from trees on the property and bricks carved from the area's clay soil and baked in the sun.  With everything built on site except the shutters, Highland contains the most elaborate Federal style trim work in West Feliciana.  Highland is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Don Norwood.

  • Hillcroft

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    Hillcroft Home

    Hillcroft, a stately Colonial Revival Mansion built in 1903 of heart pine and cypress.  The style results from a return to classical discipline.  The builder was Samuel Lawrason a prominent judge and civic leader.  One of the most unique aspects of Hillcroft is the widow's walk.  This enclosed area on the roof offers a spectacular view of the Mississippi River.  Hillcroft today is the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mitch Brashier.

  • Prospect

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    Prospect Home

    Prospect stands on Royal Street in St. Francisville's Historic District.  It was built in the town's early days by William Gordon Foreman, a Natchez businessman.  In Audubon's day the owner was Dr. Isaac A. Smith, who also served as President of the Louisiana Senate.  Prospect is the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wilson.

  • Rosedown SHS

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    Rosedown Plantation

    State Historic Site

    Rosedown, white and sturdy at the end of its live oak allee', was built in 1834 by Daniel Turnbull and his wife Martha Barrow, whose pride was the twenty-seven acre garden she developed and cared for until her death in 1896.  Rosedown is now an Historic Landmark owned by the state of Louisiana.

  • Woodland

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    Woodlawn Plantation

    Woodland Plantation, circa. 1850.  this antebellum home, a rare combination of French Creole and true Greek revival architecture, was moved from St. Landry Parish to its current locations in 2003, the ancestral estate of owners Mr. and Mrs. David Norwood.

  • Photo Show

                                                         
                    
                        

     

                    
                    		                
                        
                            

    Plantation Photos

                        
                    
                    

    View a sampling of photographs from Historic homes and plantations on 2012 Audubon Pilgrimage Tours.