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These plantation homes are open for tours to the public year-round.
Be sure to check times and dates as some vary with the season. Considered the center piece attraction for visitors, St. Francisville - West Feliciana Parish has one of the largest concentration of antebellum Plantation. Each home has something different to offer. Many visitors go to all the tours and two days.

Butler Greenwood Plantation
This early plantation remains in the same family which established it in the 1790's. The antebellum home, a raised English cottage with Victorian embellishments added in the 1850's, is filled with priceless antiques, oil portraits, and the area's finest original Victorian formal parlor, its 12-piece rosewood set still in the original upholstery. Surrounding the home are 19th-century gardens and a grove of moss-draped live oaks planted in 1799. House tours daily 9 to 5, Sunday 1 to 5. Admission fee charged.
Catalpa Plantation
William Fort came to Spanish Feliciana in the very early 1800's to establish a thriving sugar and cotton plantation. It is shown, not as a museum, but as a home that is lived, used, and loved. Fine portraits, exceptional antiques, and beautiful old china, porcelain, and silver are original to either Catalpa or Rosedown Plantation (home of the owner's grandmother.)
Enjoy a very personal tour through this gracious home filled with the treasures of five generations.
5 miles north of St Francisville * Hwy. 61 *** Tours by appointment. only.
Cottage Plantation
Area's most complete plantation home, circa 1795 on 400 acres. Just 5 miles north of St Francisville, La.
Open for tours daily.
greenwood Greenwood Plantation
Greenwood Plantation was built in 1830 by William Ruffin Barrow in Greek Revival style architecture with 28 columns surrounding the house. It is considered the South's finest example of classic colonial. The original house burned and has since been restored and it now stands substantially as it did over a century ago. Guided tours daily. Admission fee.
Photo by PatW

Myrtles Plantation
The Myrtles Plantation invites you to step into the past for a guided tour of antebellum splendor. You will see fine antiques and architectural treasures. Guided tours daily - 9:00am to 5:00pm. Admission fee.

 

Oakley House Oakley House at Audubon State Park
Where John J. Audubon came to Oakley in 1821 to tutor Eliza Pirrie, and it was the home of her daughter Isabelle Matthews during the hard years of the Civil War and Reconstruction. When the last of this family died in 1946, the State of Louisiana bought and restored the house, now the centerpiece of Audubon Historic Site. Tours daily. Admission fee.
rosedown Rosedown Plantation
Located on La. Hwy 10 just east of the intersection of La. Hwy 10 and US Hwy 61. Tour antebellum home, avenue of oaks and extensive gardens.
 

Free WiFi at the St. Francisville Louisiana

Wireless Internet in rooms, main house,
porches and grounds.

Guest not staying with us are
welcome to come enjoy our refreshments
and use our wireless Internet.

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Local Photographs

Owner of the St. Francisville Inn, Patrick Walsh, is an outdoor photographer specializing in birds and landscapes. One of his favorite locations is kayaking on Cat Island NWR. To view or purchase his work visit the West Feliciana Parish Historic Society Museum on Ferdinand St., Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site or the St. Francisville Inn.

Merchandise for Sale

The St. Francisville Inn also offers for sale various items throughout the mainhouse. Small antique peices such as clocks, mirrors and glassware are mixed about the wine parlor and dinning rooms. Art and photograph from Murrell Butler, Yolanda D'Aquillia and Patrick Walsh can also be found for sale. Historian and writer, Anne Butler, has several of her books for purchase.

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