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The Houmas

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The house and what was left of the property was finally purchased by Dr. George B. Crozat in 1940. Crozat began an ambitious program of restoration of the house and gardens. In the process he stripped off some of the original decorative elements of the interior and exterior to give the house a
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The earliest surviving building is the original main house. Its construction date is the source of contention among scholarly sources, with some believing it is the original Latil house, with later alterations. Others point to evidence that it is from the Wade Hampton era. It is a
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style two-story, brick building with end wall gables and chimneys and a stuccoed exterior. It has two rooms on each floor with a central hall and staircase and is linked to the later main house by a carriageway.
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about 1825. Preston was married to Caroline Hampton, Wade Hampton's daughter. The Prestons built a new main house in front of the old one in 1840. The
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simpler, "Federal style," look. The house and grounds remained in that family until it passed to a new owner, Kevin Kelly, in 2003.
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purchased Daniel Clark's land holdings and slaves. Hampton was one of the wealthiest landowners and largest slaveholders in the
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The complex, containing eight buildings and one structure, and the 10 acres (4.0 ha) they rest upon, was added to the
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A lifelong bachelor, John Burnside died in 1881 and left the estate to a friend, Oliver Beirne. It then went to
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for a variety of motion pictures, television series and commercials. Houmas House is most associated with the
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plantation had its beginnings when Alexander Latil and Maurice Conway appropriated all of the
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During the war, plans were made to use the plantation house as a headquarters for
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on the property, in which Claiborne sustained a gunshot wound to his leg.
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mansion is two-and-a-half stories high and surrounded by 14 monumental
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columns on three sides. The hipped roof is crowned with arched
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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana
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by 1803, when the United States obtained the area through the
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The more than 10,000-acre (4,000 ha) estate was sold to
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along this stretch of the river. In June 1807, Clark and
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A Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse and Company
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Louisiana's Plantation Homes: The Grace and Grandeur
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

The Houmas is located in Louisiana
The Houmas is located in the United States
Burnside
Louisiana Highway 44
Burnside, Louisiana
30°08′28″N 90°56′03″W / 30.14115°N 90.93421°W / 30.14115; -90.93421
John Smith Preston
80001694
plantation complex
house museum
Burnside, Louisiana
main house
Houma people
National Register of Historic Places
Houma tribe
Mississippi River
French Colonial
sugarcane
plantation
Louisiana Purchase
Daniel Clark
sugar mills
territorial
William C. C. Claiborne
duel
American Revolutionary War
Wade Hampton
antebellum era

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