Mule Barn

The barn at Destrehan is immense: 162 feet long and 35 wide, raised off the ground, framed in pegged timber in the 1830s. It stood at Glendale Plantation until it was moved and rebuilt here. The River Road Historical Society, a local nonprofit formed in the late 1960s to save the dilapidated Destrehan house, runs the site; the Amoco oil company, which had owned the property since 1958, donated it in 1971. The barn now hosts events. In January 2023 the parish of St. Charles Borromeo opened its 300th anniversary there with a dinner and lecture.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Destrehan Plantation — steps away
  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 — 17 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 — 18 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 — 18 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

• Destrehan Plantation (1811 Slave Revolt) — steps away
• Destrehan Manor House — steps away
• George Prince Ferry Memorial — 0.4 mi
• Hale Boggs Bridge — 0.4 mi