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Designated a National Historic Landmark on April 15, 1970, this raised cottage is counted among the best preserved examples of French colonial building in the nation. The walls are cypress timbers chinked with clay and Spanish moss, the ground floor is stuccoed brick, and the gallery pillars use wedge-shaped bricks cut to make a round column. It was built between 1787 and 1791 and is thought to share a builder with the Parlange house. Hurricane Katrina later left it damaged.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Destrehan Plantation — 3.1 mi
  A River Road house begun in 1787 where, in January 1811, a tribunal of five slaveholders tried people who had risen on the German Coast, and where an exhibit now tells the revolt.
• Whitney Plantation — 15 mi
  A museum on a former sugar plantation along the River Road that tells its story through the people who were enslaved there, with memorials to 107,000 enslaved Louisianans and 2,200 children.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 19 mi
  The Garden District's 1833 cemetery of about 1,100 family tombs, closed to visitors in 2019 and reopened on October 1, 2026 for small guided tours run by the Preservation Resource Center.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 20 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.

More markers nearby

• Flagville — 0.5 mi
• Fashion Plantation — 1.1 mi
• More Gather to Fight For Freedom — 1.4 mi
• "Denver" — 1.7 mi