Belle Alliance is a historic plantation house in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, along Louisiana Highway 308 near Belle Rose and Bayou Lafourche, on land originally granted to Spanish physician and military officer Don Juan Vives in the 1770s. The standing Italianate and Greek Revival mansion was built around 1846 by planter Charles Anton Kock, who used enslaved labor to grow sugar on the property, and was designed by architect Paul Andry. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
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Belle Alliance is an Italianate and Greek Revival plantation house in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, U.S.A. It is the namesake of the unincorporated community of Belle Alliance.
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