Aillet House, Historic plantation house in Port Allen, United States.
The Aillet House is a colonial plantation house in Port Allen that blends Federal and Creole architectural styles with symmetrical proportions and careful design. Its walls were built using bousillage, a regional technique that combines clay and moss between wooden posts to create strong, durable surfaces.
The house was built in 1830 for sugar planter Jean Dorville Landry during the height of agricultural settlement in southeast Louisiana. Its construction marks a time when European colonization was establishing permanent roots in the region.
The house was donated to the West Baton Rouge Museum and moved to its campus in Port Allen, where it now stands as a preserved example of a bousillage plantation building open to museum visitors. Its relocation keeps the structure in the parish where it was built around 1830.
The house was donated to the West Baton Rouge Museum and moved to its campus in Port Allen, so visits are made there rather than at the original plantation site. Check the museum's opening arrangements before travelling, since the building is not open on its own.
The house was moved from its original site and donated to the West Baton Rouge Museum, which now keeps it on its campus in Port Allen. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 9, 1991.
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