HOME 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. |
GARDENS TOURS
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The cluster of notable 19th-century gardens in West Feliciana are outstanding examples of what unlimited time, wealth, labor, and horticultural knowledge, combined with the rich loess soil and a happy climate, could produce in antebellum culture. These gardens remain monuments to past glories and to the hardiness of plantings. |
CHURCH TOURS
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Churches were monuments of order in the disorderly frontier landscape. Throughout the 19th century the settlers strained to build and support them.
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CEMETERY TOUR
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The peaceful dead of Grace Churchyard stand beside their handsome tombstones and tell their stories. |
ANTIQUE SHOW
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Select antiques dealers will be housed in three locations in the historic district: Feliciana Masonic Lodge on Proserity, Market Hall on Royal Street, and Jackson Hall on Ferdinand Street. |
ENTERTAINMENT
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Daytime Revel on Royal Street, night social, Light up the Night. |
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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. |
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Oakley House
(Audubon State Historic Site)
Oakley was built by a Scot, James Pirrie, on land his wife Lucy inherited from her first husband. Their prospering cotton plantation allowed them in 1821 to engage Audubon to tutor their daughter Eliza. Since 1947 Oakley has been the centerpiece of Audubon State Historic Site.
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photo credit Ann Weller
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Rosedown Plantation
(Rosedown State Historic Site)
Rosedown was built in 1835 by Daniel Turnbull, wealthy cotton planter, for his wife Martha Hilliard Barrow. Today the house, 13 historic dependencies, 28-acres formal gardens, and 371 surrounding acres are owned and maintained by the State of Louisiana as a nationally famous historic site.
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photo credit ptWalsh
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Barrow House
Barrow House, simple 1810 saltbox with later cottage addition, has long been associated with the family of W.W.Leake, legislator, judge and banker. In 1863 young Leake was the Confederate officer who stopped the Civil War to permit burial of a brother Mason in Union blue. His daughter Camilla married Dr. A. Feltus Barrow, old-time horse-and-buggy doctor and town mayor. It is now B&B/home of Shirley Ditloff and son Chris Dennis.
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photo credit Ann Weller
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Butler Greenwood
Butler Greenwood was established in the late 1700s by one of Feliciana’s earliest pioneers, Dr. Samuel Flower, whose descendants still own and occupy it. The raised English cottage, surrounded by ancient live oaks and gardens, contains the area’s finest original formal Victorian parlor and lots of family treasures. Owner Anne Butler is a Louisiana author.
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Laurel Hill
Laurel Hill was purchased in the 1830s by Judge Edward McGehee, founder of the early standard-gauge West Feliciana Railroad. His daughter Caroline and husband Duncan Stewart enlarged the original small Carolina-I structure in the 1870s. Mary and Jimmy Hatchette have completed a thorough restoration for use as a country home.
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Cabildo
Cabildo, built c. 1809 with handhewn joists and 22” brick walls, this Spanish colonial structure has supposedly been a monastery, tavern frequented by Audubon, West Feliciana’s first parish courthouse beginning in 1824, bank, barbershop, grocery, hotel, drugstore, library and now beautifully restored residence of Peggy and Joey Gammill.
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