Residence Plantation House, Queen Anne style plantation house in Houma, Louisiana, United States
Residence Plantation House is a two-story Queen Anne-style house with Eastlake features, built in 1898 for Roberta Barrow on the site of her father's demolished antebellum home in Houma, Louisiana. It has a wraparound porch and a corner turret.
The house was built in 1898 and replaced an earlier structure that once stood on the plantation grounds. Its construction came during a period when residential design in the region was shifting toward new styles.
The house is named for Roberta Barrow, who had it built in 1898 on the site of her father's demolished antebellum home. Her father was sugar planter Robert Ruffin Barrow, and her grandfather owned Afton Villa, another Louisiana plantation house.
The house stands on the site of Roberta Barrow's father's demolished antebellum home, on a former plantation in Houma. It is a private residence, not a museum, so there are no interior tours; the Queen Anne exterior with Eastlake features is what can be seen. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 2001.
Roberta Barrow was the daughter of sugar planter Robert Ruffin Barrow, and her grandfather owned Afton Villa. She had her father's antebellum house torn down and built this one on the same site in 1898. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 2001.
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