Labranche Plantation Dependency

The building is a garconniere, the bachelor quarters of a house that no longer exists: the big house was destroyed in the Civil War, leaving this outbuilding and an oak-lined alley. The beams and ceiling boards are beaded, and the small rooms have mantels with strong moldings and sunburst motifs, unusually grand for the size. Beside it a surviving slave quarters has been restored to show how enslaved families lived, one of the few left in the area. The Lentini family of Kenner bought and restored the dependency in 1983, and the site is private.

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.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 14 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 — 14 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.
• Congo Square — 15 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.

More markers nearby

• Elkinsville-Freetown — 0.8 mi
• Destrehan Plantation (1811 Slave Revolt) — 3.1 mi
• Destrehan Manor House — 3.2 mi
• George Prince Ferry Memorial — 3.5 mi