The Houmas, also known historically as Burnside Plantation and today as Houmas House Plantation and Gardens, is a plantation complex and house museum west of Burnside, Louisiana, named for the Houma people who originally inhabited the area. Its Greek Revival main house, fronted by fourteen monumental Doric columns, was completed in 1840 by John Smith Preston on an estate whose roots reach back to a late-eighteenth-century plantation. The property, which today comprises ten acres and eight buildings, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
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house museum in Burnside, Louisiana
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is a historic plantation complex and house museum
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The plantation was established in the late 1700s, with the current main house completed in 1840.
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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 National Register of Historic Places on September 27, 1980.
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It is a Federal style two-story, brick building with end wall gables and chimneys and a stuccoed exterior.
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It is a Federal style two-story, brick building with end wall gables and chimneys and a stuccoed exterior.
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