HOME TOURS

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

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


Churches were monuments of order in the disorderly frontier landscape. Throughout the 19th century the settlers strained to build and support them.

 

CEMETERY TOUR

The peaceful dead of Grace Churchyard stand beside their handsome tombstones and tell their stories.
 

ANTIQUE SHOW

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

Daytime Revel on Royal Street, night social, Light up the Night.
 
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Churches were monuments of order in the disorderly frontier landscape. Throughout the 19th century Feliciana settlers strained to build and support them.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church

The church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel was built in 1893 from plans drawn by Confederate General P. T. Beauregard, and for the first time since the days of Spanish rule; Roman Catholic faithful would have a resident priest.


photo crdit: Patrick Walsh
United Methodist Church

Protestants gained a foothold because of Spanish religious tolerance. After 1810, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Episcopal churches were built.

The United Methodist Church was constructed in 1899, replacing the 1844 flood-damaged church in Bayou Sara and retaining the original steeple bell.

photo credit: Patrick Walsh
Grace Church in the Spring

Grace Episcopal Church replaced its original 1827 Georgian building with the present Gothic structure in 1858. Grace Church's beauty owes much to the restraint of its builder, local master carpenter C. N. Gibbons. Damaged during the Civil War, the church was left unconsecrated until 1893.

photo credit: Patrick Walsh
 
 
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