Audubon Plantation House - Baton Rouge, LA
N 30° 21.071 W 090° 57.328
15R E 696512 N 3359472
Fine privately owned Greek Revival style old southern Plantation
home.
Waymark Code: WM55CN
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 11/13/2008
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This one has been very hard for me to photograph. I have tried numerous times. Fine large example of a Greek Revival plantation home. Looks to be in well maintained condition. I always see movement around the home. Only got the one photo for now, but will add more as I can get them.
I also cannot find no other info on house, so here is a bit of History from the Register application located
here .
Audubon has a central hall plan, two rooms deep, with a front and rear gallery. The front
and rear parlors are linked by a set of pocket doors that still function. Each room has direct access
to the galleries by means of French doors. The detailing is Greek Revival throughout. Both the front
and rear galleries feature fully articulated entablatures. The front gallery posts are very elaborately
treated with astragals and bolection molded panels. The front gallery also features a bolection
molded paneled dado and clapboard sheathing. This clapboard treatment is unusual for the period,
but it appears to be original. (Normally antebellum houses have flush board siding under the
galleries.) The large pitched roof culminates in three front pedimented dormers. Noteworthy interior
features include the staircase with its massive turned newel post, the elaborately molded
baseboards, and the single aedicule style mantel. (At one time there were three others.)
Around the turn of the century much of the rear gallery was enclosed for a bathroom and
service spaces. Later still the area under the staircase was enclosed for a closet. In addition, it
appears that the two small windows on the side gables were added. Except for the previously
mentioned pocket doors, all of the doors presently in the house are period salvaged replacements.
Finally, all four of the chimneys have been rebuilt.