Judge Poché Plantation House

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The Judge Poché Plantation House is a mansion on the Mississippi River of a former plantation in the state of Louisiana in the United States . The building is named after the lawyer and politician Felix Pierre Poché and is a listed building.

history

The on State Highway 44 (house number 6554) in Convent, St. James Parish building was lying then-Judge Felix Pierre Poche from the year 1867 on the property of approximately 65 hectares large sugar plantation building. Poché lived here with his family until he moved to New Orleans, around 70 kilometers away, in 1880. From then on, he only used the complex as a summer residence. In 1892 he sold the property to the judge Henry Himel. By the turn of the millennium, the house had five other owners; in December 1980 it was listed ( National Register of Historic Places ). In 2004, entrepreneur Mark Anderson bought the property at auction for $ 643,500. He converted the house into a bed and breakfast that still exists today . A motorhome parking space with 57 spaces was created around the park of the house . As a result of the damage caused by the Katrina hurricane in the New Orleans metropolitan area, Anderson took in around 300 people who had become homeless and evacuated from the city for several weeks at the Judge Poché Plantation House .

architecture

The front facade of the so-called Plantation House faces the Mississippi River, 200 meters away, from which it is separated by the highway. The building made of cypress wood is two-storeyed, with the second storey partially already in the transverse gable roof with its central, double-sided dwelling and two dormers facing forward . It has a front and two side porches . The front veranda is provided with alternating one- and two-column support posts, the side verandas only with single-column. In contrast to the majority of the plantation houses in Louisiana, which were built in a Greek- neoclassical style, the design of the Poché house is noticeably influenced by Victorian architecture . Ox- eye applications can be found on the dormers and posts of the front facade.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lee Malone, Louisiana Plantation Homes: A Return to Splendor , ISBN 978-1-45560-7-808 , Pelican Publishing, p. 118 (in English)
  2. ↑ Kevin Chiri, Poche plantation , December 1, 2005, L'Observateur (in English)
  3. ^ Poche Plantation - An Historic And Peaceful Place To Stay , New Orleans Plantation Country, River Parishes Tourist Commission (in English)

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Coordinates: 30 ° 0 ′ 44.3 "  N , 90 ° 49 ′ 40.1"  W.