Desire Plantation House
Appearance
Desire Plantation | |
Nearest city | Vacherie, Louisiana |
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Coordinates | 29°56′39″N 90°41′32″W / 29.94417°N 90.69222°W |
Built | 1835 |
Architectural style | French Creole |
NRHP reference No. | 86001054[1] |
Added to NRHP | 15 May 1986 |
Desire plantation, also known as Alcidesire,[2] is an historic Perique tobacco plantation built circa 1835, and located in Vacherie, Louisiana, St. James Parish. The plantation house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
History
[edit]Desire LeBlanc was born in 1831, the son of Dominique LeBlanc and Perosine Bourgeois. He married Aglaé Bourgeois in 1854 and had a daughter, Alcidie LeBlanc, in the same year.
In April 1885, Alcidie married Louis S. Webre, who bought the Bellevue (Belleview) Plantation located on Bayou Grosse Tete in Iberville Parish. They had a son, Joseph M. Webre, in 1888.[3]
See also
[edit]- National Register of Historic Places listings in St. James Parish, Louisiana
- List of plantations in Louisiana
References
[edit]- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Mary Ann Sternberg (2013) [1996]. Along the River Road: Past and Present on Louisiana's Historic Byway (Third ed.). Louisiana State University Press. p. 285. ISBN 9780807150627. Retrieved June 30, 2014.
- ^ "Desire Plantation" (PDF). p. 4. Retrieved June 30, 2014.
Categories:
- Houses completed in 1835
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana
- Creole architecture in Louisiana
- Houses in St. James Parish, Louisiana
- National Register of Historic Places in St. James Parish, Louisiana
- 1835 establishments in Louisiana
- Tobacco plantations in the United States
- Plantations in Louisiana
- Plantation houses in Louisiana