Rosedown Plantation, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, LA

Significance: No house in Louisiana gives a better idea of an old Louisiana plantation home than does Rosedown, built at the end of an avenue of oaks. Between these oaks is a marble statuary, copies of well known classical works bought in Italy by the Turnbulls in 1851. On each side of the avenue is a Victorian garden laid out in a Victorian manner reminiscent of the French naturalistic gardens of that date. The two summer houses in these gardens were built in 1895. To the right of the house is a box garden similar to many in this area that were done in the 20's and is a reflection of late Eighteenth Century box gardens of Virginia. The small summer house in the center of this garden built in 1835, with an earlier feeling, is sympathetic in its Greek Revival detail.
Survey number: HABS LA-1101
Building/structure dates: 1835 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1895 Subsequent Work