Myrtles Plantation, Antebellum plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana, US.

Myrtles Plantation is a Creole cottage-style frame house with a pale green clapboard exterior and a dark shingled roof. A 125-foot veranda with slender columns and white cast-iron grape-cluster railings runs across the front and wraps around the south end. The ground floor has tall shuttered windows and glazed doors under a curved transom with hand-painted stained glass.

David Bradford built the house in 1796 as Laurel Grove and lived there alone until President John Adams pardoned him in 1799 for his role in the Whiskey Rebellion. His widow Elizabeth ran the plantation with enslaved workers until 1817, when Clarke Woodruff took over; he sold the land and its slaves to Ruffin Gray Stirling in 1834. Stirling nearly doubled the house and renamed it The Myrtles after the crape myrtles nearby. It joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

The name comes from the crape myrtles growing nearby when Ruffin Gray Stirling renamed the property in the 1830s. Inside, the two parlors hold Carrara marble mantles in the Rococo Revival style, crowned by plaster cornices and ceiling medallions mixed from clay, Spanish moss and cattle hair, no two alike. The entry doors carry hand-painted stained glass etched with the French cross.

The plantation operates as a bed and breakfast and provides daily guided tours of six ground-floor rooms plus evening themed tours. Tours last approximately 40 minutes and reservations are recommended for groups. The property sits roughly 30 miles (48 km) north of Baton Rouge along Louisiana Highway 61.

The entry doors carry hand-painted stained glass etched with the French cross, said to ward off evil. The house also holds a French Baccarat crystal chandelier weighing over 300 pounds in the entry hall, and the plaster ceiling medallions mix clay, Spanish moss and cattle hair, with no two alike.