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The Houmas

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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.

Facts
Building Type
Building Type (category)
House 1
Building Type (category)
Plantation 1
Building Type (category)
Museum 1
Building Type
Plantation complex and house museum 1
Location
Burnside, Louisiana 1
Completed Year
1840 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
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House, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

Museum, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

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Source The Houmas, Wikipedia
Source The Houmas, Wikipedia

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1. The Houmas, Wikipedia
  • Lead paragraph, first sentence, place clause
    house museum in Burnside, Louisiana
  • Lead paragraph, first sentence, description clause
    is a historic plantation complex and house museum
  • Lead paragraph, second sentence
    The plantation was established in the late 1700s, with the current main house completed in 1840.
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    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.
  • In Style: Federal Architecture, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Federal, Greek Revival
  • In Style: Greek Revival Architecture, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Federal, Greek Revival
  • Uses Element: Brick, Wikipedia article
    It is a Federal style two-story, brick building with end wall gables and chimneys and a stuccoed exterior.
  • Uses Element: Stucco, Wikipedia article
    It is a Federal style two-story, brick building with end wall gables and chimneys and a stuccoed exterior.
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