Lawyers' Row

Five small law offices face the courthouse across Woodville Street, and they were built to be read as a set. Four date from the 1840s; the fifth, a two-office duplex, followed in 1860 and is now a library. The single offices have four-column porticos, the wider ones seven. When the row was named a National Historic Landmark in 1974, three of the buildings were still doing legal work, part of why it was prized for surviving whole. Local guides call its first tenants the flower of the Louisiana bar.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Audubon State Historic Site — 18 mi
  Oakley House, where Audubon taught drawing and painted 32 birds in 1821, and the two cabins behind it where four Black families lived through slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow.
• Port Hudson State Historic Site — 20 mi
  The 48-day siege of 1863 on the Mississippi bluffs, where the Louisiana Native Guards and Captain Andre Cailloux led the first assault; earthworks, a six-mile trail and a museum.
• Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site — 22 mi
  A cotton plantation worked by hundreds of enslaved people, whose names survive in an 1862 succession list; the Turnbull house and gardens, and the quarters nobody has yet found.

More markers nearby

• Courthouse and Lawyers' Row Historic District — steps away
• Clinton Courthouse — steps away
• Centenary College's Main Academic Building — 12 mi
• Battle of Jackson, Station One — 12 mi