Residence Plantation

This land has stayed in one family since 1828. Robert Ruffin Barrow bought it from James Bowie that year, and his descendants, now the Gaidrys, still farm it. His daughter Roberta tore down the pre-war house in 1898 and built the Queen Anne Revival one, rare in a parish where a survey of more than 1,100 buildings found about six major Queen Anne examples, because wealthy residents tended to keep older styles. The house holds papers of Confederate Captain Horace Hunley, and a quarters building may be a slave cabin or a later tenant house.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 3.1 mi
  A Greek Revival sugar plantation house in Houma, worked by 233 enslaved people by 1852, with the last Terrebonne mill's story and a worker's cabin of about 1885.
• Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge — 7.1 mi
  A 4,212-acre refuge of freshwater marsh and cypress-tupelo swamp southwest of Houma, with a nature trail to a boardwalk and observation deck and mostly boat-only access.
• Laurel Valley Village — 14 mi
  A sugar plantation's workers' village south of Thibodaux, with cabins of about 1845, shotgun houses, a store and cemetery, and the 1887 strike and massacre in the parish around it.
• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — 16 mi
  A Jean Lafitte National Historical Park center on Bayou Lafourche with Acadian and bayou-life exhibits, a 200-seat theater and ranger-guided boat tours to the E. D. White house.

More markers nearby

• Magnolia Cemetery — 1.6 mi
• NAS Houma (LTA) — 1.7 mi
• A History of Terrebonne Parish — 1.8 mi
• The Grand Dérangement / Le Grand Dérangement — 1.8 mi