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Biedenharn Home - http://www.bmuseum.org/biedenharnhome.htm
Built in 1913 by Joseph A. Biedenharn when the family moved to Monroe from Vicksburg, Mississippi with 10 rooms available for the tour.

Destrehan Planation - http://www.destrehanplantation.org/
The oldest documented plantation house in the lower Mississippi Valley. Offers tours, private events, gift shop, and history information. Located in Destrehan.

Edgar Degas House - http://www.neworleansmuseums.com/directory/location.php?locationID=1256
The home of the famed French Impressionist master during his time in New Orleans from 1872 to 1873. Includes photos and visitor information.

Gallier House - http://www.neworleansmuseums.com/directory/location.php?locationID=1259
Built in 1857, Gallier House was designed and built by one of the most esteemed architects in New Orleans history, James Gallier. Includes photos and visitor information.

Hermann-Grima House - http://www.neworleansmuseums.com/directory/location.php?locationID=1260
Built in 1831 and an example of American architecture Includes photos and visitor information. Located in New Orleans.

Hermann-Grima/Gallier Historic Houses - http://www.hgghh.org/
General information for both homes, virtual tour, and exhibits located at New Orleans.

Kent Plantation House - http://www.kenthouse.org/
A classic example of French colonial architecture c.1796 standing on the original land grant from the King of Spain to Pierre Baillio II with images and information on tours located at Alexandria.

Longue Vue House & Gardens - http://www.longuevue.com/
An estate designed in 1939-1942 for philanthropists Edgar Bloom Stern, a New Orleans cotton broker, and his wife Edith Rosenwald Stern, an heiress to the Sears-Roebuck fortune. Provides events, exhibits, education programs, and visitor information. Located in New Orleans.

Longue Vue House and Gardens - http://www.neworleansmuseums.com/directory/location.php?locationID=1264
A city estate with a Classical Revival-style mansion surrounded by eight acres of breathtakingly landscaped gardens. Includes photos and visitor information. Located in New Orleans.

Oak Alley Plantation - http://www.oakalleyplantation.com
Antebellum Mississippi River mansion in Vacherie. Describes property history, tours, accommodations, restaurant, gift catalog, ghost sightings and area attractions using text, photos, map, directions, events calendar and links.

Pitot House Museum - http://www.neworleansmuseums.com/directory/location.php?locationID=1279
The former residence of New Orleans’ first mayor, the Honorable James Pitot. Photos and visitor information. Located in New Orleans.

San Francisco Plantation - http://www.sanfranciscoplantation.org/
Located in Garyville on the east bank of the Mississippi River. Includes tour information, history and education, and calendar.

Shadows on-the-Teche - http://www.shadowsontheteche.org
A white-columned brick building constructed between 1831 and 1834 by sugar planter David Weeks and his wife with a shop and information on programs, tours, and events located at New Iberia.

Southdown Plantation House - http://www.southdownmuseum.org/
A 19th century sugar manor house and home to the Terrebonne Museum of history and culture was built in 1859 as a one-story Greek Revival house by William J. Minor, and comprises of images, information, exhibits, and events calendar located at Houma.

The Beauregard-Keyes House - http://www.neworleansmuseums.com/directory/location.php?locationID=1251
Home built in 1826 for wealthy auctioneer Joseph LeCarpentier. Photos and visitor information. Located in New Orleans.

The Williams Residence - http://www.hnoc.org/visit/buildings_williamsresidence.php
An 1889 New Orleans townhouse restored by General L. Kemper and Leila Williams in the 1940s.

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