St. Joseph Plantation House - Vacherie, LA - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com

St. Joseph plantation is part of a large sugar cane farming company. It is opened as a museum and tour stop. It is however closed on Sundays (when I visited!). Large house and the grounds are still well kept, and include alot of the plantations out buildings and equipment. It is located next to Felecite Plantation on the left and Oak Alley PLantation on the right. Very rich in history, the entire area is the heart of plantation country.

Found a great historical statement at the Louisiana Register appliction page, located here which states:

Dr. Cazimir Bernard Mericq purchased a one-arpent tract (which would later be part of St. Joseph Plantation) from the Scioneaux family c. 1840. This land included a “maison principale.” (Whether it was the candidate or an earlier house cannot be documented.) Mericq died in 1855, and in 1857 or 1858 Alexis Ferry, II and his wife Josephine became St. Joseph’s third known owners. Josephine Ferry was the daughter of well-known Louisiana Creole planter Valcour Aime, whose famous plantation, known as Petit Versailles, stood a short distance downriver from St. Joseph. Oral tradition suggests that Ferry enclosed the dwelling’s lower level, but his detailed four-volume journal (housed at Tulane University’s manuscript library) lacks mention of any major changes to the house, nor does the architectural evidence support the notion of an open lower floor (see Part 7). The Ferrys expanded the plantation, but debt forced them to sell in 1873. Since 1877 the home and land have belonged to the Waguespack family. Their family corporation, St. Joseph Planting and Manufacturing, Inc., grows sugar cane on the plantation. Family members recently rehabilitated the house, which is now open for tours.

Street address: 3535 LA HWY 18 Vacherie, LA USA 70090 County / Borough / Parish: St. James Year listed: 2005 Historic (Areas of) Significance: Architecture/Engineering Periods of significance: 1825-1849 Historic function: Domestic. Sub - Single Dwelling Current function: Recreation And Culture Sub - Museum Privately owned?: yes Primary Web Site: [Web Link] Secondary Website 1: [Web Link] Season start / Season finish: Not listed Hours of operation: Not listed Secondary Website 2: Not listed National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed

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