Montegut Plantation House - Laplace, LA
N 30° 03.513 W 090° 28.888
15R E 742803 N 3327946
Quick Description: Privately owned home, located on Hwy. 628 in Laplace.
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 11/21/2009 9:32:41 AM
Waymark Code: WM7Q4A
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Long Description:Nice home and nicely landscaped lot. Hwy. 628 is known locally as
E. 5th. St. Easy to walk to, there is a sidewalk located on the
street.
Laplace is a growing area, located about 15 miles from New Orleans.
I could not find any information on the home except from the
Louisiana Register page, located
here
Brief historical statement is:
Montegut is locally significant in the area of architecture as a
rare surviving example of St. John the Baptist Parish's earliest
and most important architectural heritage. The area which became
St. John Parish was fairly well settled by the end of the
eighteenth century. Created in 1807, the parish grew to become a
prosperous sugar planting area. Although St. John was part of the
so-called German Coast, its dominant cultural influence was French
Creole. Presumably there were once a few hundred Creole residences
of various sizes in the parish. Today Montegut is one of only eight
remaining full-blown examples. This is out of a total of 1,108 50+
year old buildings which have been identified in the parish survey.
These Creole structures represent the parish's earliest
architectural development and are the primary representatives of
its well known Creole cultural heritage. It should be noted that in
any given French parish in Louisiana, the Creole buildings are
generally considered the most important. This is because the French
Creole heritage is the major element distinguishing Louisiana from
other southern states and in many ways forms its cultural identity.