Southdown Plantation

Southdown Plantation is a historic plantation house in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, on a plantation founded in 1828; the surviving main house, of hand-fired brick with cypress and pine woodwork, was built in 1858 and enlarged in 1893 with a second story and Virginia-style colonnaded walkways, later decorated with Favrile glass panels depicting plantation scenes. Southdown operated as a working sugar plantation until its mill was relocated in 1979, and the house and slave quarters opened to the public as a museum on June 27, 1982, following its donation by Southdown Land in 1975; it is maintained today by the Terrebonne Historical and Cultural Society. Southdown Plantation was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 18, 1974. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/