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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE: (July 1969) NAT IONAL PARK SERVICE Louisiana COUNTY- NATIONAL REG ISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES St. Charles Parish INVENTOR Y - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER DATE (Type all entries — complete applicable sections) /^\511/>7>v iAR 2 u is»» ^ijii^i^m^iiiiiiiiiiiiiifi COMMON: /"S^ Destrehan Plantation /vy AND/OR HISTORIC: WAK 1 2 1973 \±?j ^ in 3ft^^^|&$;:S-:£:;:^^^ — ——————:— ' STREET AND NUMBER: ^ X ^\ " **~'*-" 0 ' ^-^ X^/ River Road, /La. No. LB*) VV>^ __ ^X'XV/ CITY OR TOWN: * V ^ — i — - — STATE CODE COUNT Y: CODE T/misiana 22 St. Charles Parish op? |lilllliliiililliliiililll;lll:l CATEGORY STATUS ACCESS.BLE OWNERSHIP (Check One) TO THE PUBLIC Q District £] Building n Public Public Acquisition: Q Occupied Yes: O Site Q Structure QD Private Q In Process QQ Unoccupied K Restricted D Object D Both D Being Considered r-j PreservatlOn work D Unrestricted in progress ' — ' PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) I | Agricultural [ | Government | | Park I | Transportation 1 1 Comments Q Commercial D Industrial Q Private Residence | | Other (Specify) | | Educational 1 1 Mi itary | | Religious TTrmfipri I | Entertainment CD Museum | | Scientific ... .„ ....... '•; : : '•••'•-• ' • : : ,: ... •'.'•' '.:'•:••'.•' '. .: :..> : .: x: :: x: :.:-x::: :::':::: : :; :. >::•:•:•:•::: ;•:•:•:•:•:•>:•:-:•:•:•:•:;:-:;:;:>; .•'•'..'.•.'.'.• .-. • •. ...•..•..••...•..• •..'.•.''.''..'.•.'.•.•.•.•.'.•.•.•.•.•.•.'.•.••.:.:.:...:.:.:•...•...•.....•....•...•.•.•.•.•.....•.•.-.•.•.•. .-.••• . .• • •.:..•:::•;••. :•.•:.:•:....•:...•.•.••.-..•..•.•.•.•..•.•.•. .,.•.•.•.,.•.•.•..•.•.•.-.•.•.;..;.;.;. OWNER'S NAME: STATE: River Road Historical Society _ Harold nambre, Prfis T STREET AND NUMBER: ' Cl TY OR TOWN: STATE: CODE Louisiana 22 pi COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: COUNTY: Sf. t Hharles Parish Courthouse STREET AND NUMBER: River R^aH Cl TY OR TOWN: STATE CODE Louisiana 22 TITLE OF SURVEY: NUMBERENTRY Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration f* -n O DATE OF SURVEY: 1941 |T] Federal Q State Q County Q Loco 70 DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: z to TJ Library of Congress C STREET AND NUMBER: m O ZI- CITY OR TOWN: STATE: CODE Washington D. C. DATE (Check One) Excellent d Good QQ Fair Q Deteriorated Q Ruins d Unexposed CONDITION (Check One) (Check One) Altered | | Unaltered Moved QQ Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (it known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE ^Destrehan consists of a central, two story house with open galleries on three sides and flanking two story wings separated from the main body of the house by the side galleries. The central unit, the oldest part of the house, apparently originally had a colonnade surrounding it, composed of masonry columns on the ground floor and wood ones on the upper, in the manner of Homeplace plantation across the river at Hahnville. The roof is double-pitched all around, the steeply pitched center part being framed on to the main walls of the house and then extended over the galleries at a lesser pitch. yOn the front are three small dormer windows with one only on the rear. These have been altered in detail but retain their original form. The walls of the ground floor are of brick masonry, plastered, scored and painted at one time to imitate granite. The walls of the upper story are of colombage, a wood frame filled in with masonry. The plan consists of six rooms on each floor, three in front and three in the rear. The rear galleries have been enclosed with weatherboards and windows.1*- The original gallery columns were replaced in the l£30 f s or 40*s with massive Greek revival Doric columns of plastered brick and the cornice was altered accordingly. \At the same time all the interior details, trim, mantels, etc. m were changed. tcovro X:<N ^ 1 2 1973-1 n NATIONAL V/\ REGISTER < PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) G Pre-Columbian j Q 16th Century (£] 18th Century D 20th Century D 15th Century C] 17th Century [£| 19th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Aboriginal PJ Education Q Political CH Urban Planning D Prehistoric Q Engineering pj Religion/Phi- D Other (Specify) D Historic QJ Industry losophy d5 Agriculture pj Invention pj Science j£] Architecture pj Landscape p| Sculpture D Art Architecture p| Socia l/Human- n Commerce Q Literature itarian D Communications pj Mi | itary pj Theater a Conservation pj Music p, Transportation STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Destretjan Plantation House was erected in 1787 by a mulatto builder named Charles Paquet for Robert Antointe Robin DeLogny, who diod in 1792. Af£er his death, the hquse suoe^jeded tp his daughter, Marie-Claude Eleonojre Robin. In 1786 Marie-Claude married Jean' Noel Destrepan from whom the plantation and the town take their names.*VDestrehan was a son of Jean Baptiste Destrehan de Tours, royal treasurer of the French colony of LouisianaA The house is one of the oldest in Louisiana and one of the best documented structures of the colonial periobV^ It represents three major phases of construction and illustrates the changes in architectural style in Louisiana from the original eighteenth century U colonial structure to the post-colonial addition of the semi-detached wings, to the ante-bellum, Greek Revival alterations in the colonnade and interior details. ^ The house was erected when indigo was still the principal plantation crap in Louisiana. The plantation then became an important sugar producing one in the nineteenth century and the house served as a facility of a major oil company for a number of years in the twentieth century when Louisiana b«gan the transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy. UJ LJ CO J. Wesley Cooper - A treasure of Louisiana Plantation Homes. Natchez, Miss. 1961. p. 62 W. Darrell Overdyke - Louisiana Plantation Homes, Colonial and Ante Bellum, New York. 1965. p. 77. Samuel Wilson, Jr. - A Guide to Architecture of New Orleans. 1699-1959. New York. 1959. p. 55. Samuel Wilson, Jr. - Destrehan Plantation - in The Louisiana Architect VII 3. March 1969. p. 3 LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY C 1 DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY ———— ———————————— ———————————— F1 OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES CORNER LATITUDE LONGITUDE LATITUDE LONGITUDE Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds NW ° * 29° 56 .. 44- 90 o 21, 54. NE ° ° SE ° ° <^ PI* O I » APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: O QKH CO ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES m STATE: CODE COUNTY ,'--"?rT ' ^?"T"'>, CODE m ^ ',' A -• V^N STATE: CODE COUNTY: < : •.''",' ^; -„, !" CODE 2: STATE: CODE COUNTY: . MflR 1^ 1373 • CO STATE: CODE COUNTY: CODE ' ;'< ' ' <=. NAME AND TITLE: . :' ; . ' n Samuel Wilson, Jr., Architect .... - ....- ...- . ———————, ——————————— ORGANIZATION DATE Araer-ifiAn Institute of Architects 14 July 1.972 STREET AND NUMBER: 91/i Masonic Temple Bldg. - ... CITY OR TOWN: STATE CODE Mew rVrl oan.d TiOuisii&inA <c<c As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion National Register. in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. The recommended OM*ji>YltoU£tlj, Chief, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation level of significance of this nomination is: National D State 3 Local Q Da,e 3/J*h2 'Zte-tff-S // - u^i/£; (//i^-*^~^~-^ 5^ a]' / ATTEST: t i Mreotor, Department of Art, I i\ ft /; . 14fe^ Historical and '.Cultural I /]! \/ltf* '~fir~~jf~ — Preservation i/IJjl^t^J^^ Keeper, of "The National RegisteV "" Date March 9, 1973 1* - rf> ")~,~ff 7 GP 0 9 0 1 .0 8 7 03 o o o >33 :o-M §M ••! NP8 Form 1MOO* 0MB Appmr* No. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number ___ Page ___ Destrehan Plantation St. Charles Parish, LOUISIANA 73002132 ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION APPROVED s7c //*J?// /-/ f. NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-4018 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet PEB 2 2 1994 Destrehan Plantation Additional Documentation, St. Charles Parish, LA OTCD REGISTER Section number ——— Page 1. Name of Property Destrehan Plantation Additional Documentation (Add 16SC18) 3. State Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this nomination meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property meets the National Register criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant statewide. 2/16/94 Signature of Certifying GfiTicial/Title Date Gerri Hobdy, LA SHPO Deot of Culture. Recreation and Tourism State Agency 5. Number of Resources Within Property Add 1 contributing site. 8. Significance Add Criterion D Area of Significance: Archaeology/Historic-Non-Aboriginal Period of Significance: c.1780-1890 Cultural Affiliation: Euro-American - 1 °"90°"a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service