Things to Do in Great River Road

Parlange Plantation

This plantation is one of the few that still functions as a working farm. Built in 1750 by Marquis Vincent...

Magnolia Mound

This home was built in the late 1700s as a small settler's house. As prosperity came to the lower Mississippi...

Nottoway Plantation

There are two reasons to come to this particular plantation. The first is the house itself, dating from...

Houmas House Plantation & Gardens

This is a different sort of plantation house in that it is actually two houses joined together. The original...

Oak Alley Plantation

This is precisely what comes to mind when most people think "plantation." A splendid white house, its...

Madewood

This imposing house, a two-story Greek Revival on Bayou Lafourche, just below Napoleonville, is one of...

San Francisco

This fanciful mansion, a brightly colored creation known as steamboat Gothic, is a farther schlep from...

Laura: A Creole Plantation

If you see only one plantation, make it this one. Laura is the very model of a modern plantation -- that...

Destrehan Plantation

An appearance in Interview with the Vampire, not to mention its proximity to New Orleans (perhaps 30...