Mary Plantation

Nobody agrees on how old this house is. The state's 1983 National Register nomination rests on construction about 1820, with a larger hip roof and four galleries added about 1840 over the original roof. An architectural historian puts the core near 1795, and a date in the 1720s is sometimes given. The walls are brick below and brick set between posts above, a French colonial method. It stands six miles below Braithwaite on the east bank and is private property, so look from the highway. The builder's name has not come down.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Barataria Preserve — 7.1 mi
  A Jean Lafitte National Historical Park unit of bayou, swamp and marsh on the site of a Chitimacha and Houma shell-mound landscape, with the visitor center and most trails closed for about two years of repairs.
• Chalmette Battlefield — 9.6 mi
  The ground of the January 8, 1815 Battle of New Orleans, beside Chalmette National Cemetery and the site of Fazendeville, a freedpeople's community founded in 1867 and bought out in the 1960s.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 10.0 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.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 11 mi
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.

More markers nearby

• Bethlehem Baptist Church School — 0.5 mi
• Woodlawn High School and the Struggle for Racial Equality — 3.0 mi
• Bellechasse Plantation — 3.4 mi
• Fort St. Leon — 6.0 mi