Capt. Pierre Joseph Landry

Pierre Joseph Landry carved wood in his last years, after tuberculosis of the knees confined him to a wheelchair in his fifties. Self-taught, he made figures in the 1830s as gifts for friends and relatives, one for President Andrew Jackson. He was a planter and a slave owner, and his journal records colonial Louisiana with its flaws included. Only about a dozen carvings are known, and a 2015 to 2016 show at the New Orleans Museum of Art, built with the Louisiana State Museum, was the first devoted to him.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• LSU Rural Life Museum — 11 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.
• Old State Capitol — 14 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 — 15 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 — 15 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.

More markers nearby

• St - Gabriel (1761-1763) — steps away
• Bayou Paul Colored School — 3.5 mi
• The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul — 4.3 mi
• The STAR (Carville's Patient-Published Newspaper) — 4.3 mi