Audubon Plantation, historic house in Louisiana, United States

Audubon Plantation is a one-and-a-half-story frame Greek Revival house at 21371 Hoo Shoo Too Road, near Baton Rouge. A central hall runs between front and rear parlors linked by pocket doors, and each room opens onto front and rear galleries through French doors. The galleries carry fully articulated entablatures, the front posts show astragals and bolection-molded panels, and three pedimented dormers sit on the pitched roof.

The house was built around 1850 during the period when sugar plantations thrived in the region and Greek Revival architecture was fashionable among landowners. By 1892, records show it under the name Audubon with owner Octavius Bullion, and it later served mainly as a rental property rather than an active plantation.

The name Audubon appears in the 1892 Statement of the Sugar Crop Made in Louisiana, when Octavius Bullion owned the plantation and rented the house to a Dixon family. The central hall with two rooms deep and French doors opening onto front and rear galleries separated formal parlors from private rooms. The front and rear parlors connect through pocket doors.

The house stands at 21371 Hoo Shoo Too Road, a rural lane near Baton Rouge; the National Register listing covers about 2.25 acres, with the boundary drawn to exclude the nonhistoric outbuildings behind the house. The property is a private residence, so view the facade and galleries from the road rather than expecting interior access. The front gallery retains its bolection-molded paneled dado and clapboard sheathing.

The National Register nomination called Audubon a Greek Revival cottage, noting it is more typical of the period's plantation houses than the larger two-story survivors. By 1987 the State Historic Preservation Office could identify only about 10 Greek Revival plantation houses left in Ascension and East Baton Rouge parishes. The listing covers about 2.25 acres, drawn to exclude nonhistoric outbuildings behind the house.