Destrehan Plantation, Destrehan, LA

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Destrehan Plantation, Destrehan, LA
Destrehan Plantation, Destrehan, LA

**Destrehan Plantation** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 73002132, date listed 1973-03-20

River Rd. (LA 48)

Destrehan, LA(St. Charles Parish)

Destrehan Plantation House was erected in 1787 by a mulatto builder named Charles Paquet for Robert Antointe Robin DeLogny, who died in 1792. After his death, the house succeeded to his daughter, Marie-Claude Eleonore Robin. In 1786 Marie-Claude married Jean Noel Destrehan from whom the plantation and the town take their names. Destrehan was a son of Jean Baptiste Destrehan de Tours, royal treasurer of the French colony of Louisiana.

The house is one of the oldest in Louisiana and one of the best documented structures of the colonial period. It represents three major phases of construction and illustrates the changes in architectural style in Louisiana from the original eighteenth century colonial structure to the post-colonial addition of the semi-detached wings, to the ante-bellum, Greek Revival alterations in the colonnade and interior details.

The house was erected when indigo was still the principal plantation crap in Louisiana. The plantation then became an important sugar producing one in the nineteenth century and the house served as a facility of a major oil company for a number of years in the twentieth century when Louisiana began the transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy. (1)

References (1) NRHP Nomination Form npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/73002132.pdf

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