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Houmas House Plantation & Gardens

58 Miles from the Hotel Monteleone
40136 Hwy.
942 River Road
Darrow, LA 70725
(504) 523-2788
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Hours of Operation:
Open for Tours
Monday and Tuesday: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Wednesday through Sunday: 9 a.m. – 8 p.m.

Tours:
$20 mansion and gardens
$10 gardens and grounds only

Directions:
Head southwest on Royal St toward Iberville St | Continue onto St Charles Ave | Turn right at Poydras St | Merge onto I-10 W via the ramp on the left to Baton Rouge | Take exit 182 for LA-22 W toward Donaldsonville | Turn left at LA-22 W | Turn left at LA-44 S | Take the 1st right onto LA-44 S/LA-942 W/River Rd | Continue to follow LA-942 W/River Rd | Destination will be on the right
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First it was the happy hunting ground of the Houma Indians, and then in 1712 it was a land grant from Louis XIV, king of France, to Antoine Crozat, a wealthy French settler. By 1776 the plantation encompassed a vast 300,000 acres, and by the late 1800s it was producing 20 million pounds of sugar per year, making it the largest source of sugar in Louisiana. The colorful history of Houmas House Plantation and gardens also includes the ingenuity of John Burnside, its owner during the Civil War, who saved if from the Union Army by declaring that as a native of Ireland, he had immunity as a British subject; and more than a century later, the filming of “Hush, Hus, Sweet Charlotee.”

Houmas House, in the town of Burnside, is a place where the glorious past takes on the vigor of the present.

Watch this episode of Top Chef which was filmed at the Houmas House. At the end they mention the Hotel Monteleone as their preferred New Orleans Hotel.

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