Beauregard Town

Elias Beauregard had Arsène Lacarrière-Latour draw a town in the Grand European Manner, with Government Street as the Grand Rue and four streets cutting across it on diagonals in an X. The names read like a roll of the Spanish empire: Grandpre for the local administrator, Penalver for a bishop, Somerulos for the captain general of Cuba. Many lots stayed empty until Baton Rouge became the capital. The 122 acres are the city's second-oldest neighborhood, after Spanish Town, and the district has been on the National Register since 1980.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old State Capitol — 0.4 mi
  James Dakin's 1850 Gothic castle on the river bluff, gutted in the Civil War, nearly demolished in 1991 and reopened in 1994 as a free museum of political history.
• Capitol Park Museum — 0.7 mi
  The Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge: a shrimp trawler and a Civil War submarine, galleries on the slave market, resistance and Jim Crow, and the music from Armstrong to Chenier.
• Louisiana State Capitol — 1.0 mi
  A 450-foot Art Deco tower Huey Long pushed through in 1930, finished in 14 months, and the hallway where he was shot in 1935; free to enter and ringed by 27 acres of grounds.
• LSU Rural Life Museum — 4.6 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.

More markers nearby

• School for the Deaf — 0.2 mi
• Bogalusa to Baton Rouge March — 0.3 mi
• The C.O.R.E. March — 0.3 mi
• Pioneers of the Bus Boycott — 0.3 mi