Felicity Plantation
Three story tall large white house with fields in the foreground and trees in the background.
The plantation house in 2010
Felicity Plantation is located in Louisiana
Felicity Plantation
Location3351 Louisiana Highway 18
Vacheria, Louisiana
Coordinates30°0′25″N 90°46′22″W / 30.00694°N 90.77278°W / 30.00694; -90.77278
Built1846 (1846)
NRHP reference No.10000062
Designated March 8, 2010

Felicity Plantation is a historic sugarcane plantation on the banks of the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is located along Louisiana Highway 18 in Vacherie, St. James Parish. Felicity is a sister plantation to St. Joseph Plantation,[1] and was built around 1846 (or 1850)[2] by Valcour Aime as a wedding gift to his daughter, Felicite Emma, and her spouse, Septime Fortier,[3] who was also her cousin.[4] Acquired by a bank in 1873,[4] the plantation was purchased by Saturnine Waguespack in 1890, who merged it with the St. Joseph Plantation to form the St. Joseph Plantation and Manufacturing Company.[3] The house still remains in the Waguespack family.[3]

Architecture

The antebellum plantation house has elements of French Colonial and Anglo-American styles.[4] It is characterized by its wide hallways and high-ceilinged rooms, while featuring a carved cypress balustrade.[4] Several of the rooms contain red Italian marble mantlepieces.[3] Six wooden pillars are large in size and square in shape.[2] The house was damaged during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and has since been restored.

Grounds

The grounds still contain an original barn and slave quarters houses.[4]

In film

Several films have used the plantation as a location, including The Skeleton Key (2005) and 12 Years a Slave (2013), along with Season One of the WGN television series, Underground.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Welcome to St. Joseph Plantation". Stjosephplantation.com. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
  2. ^ a b Butler, Anne (15 April 2009). The Pelican Guide to Plantation Homes of Louisiana. Pelican Publishing. pp. 48–. ISBN 978-1-58980-709-9.
  3. ^ a b c d The Majesty of the River Road. Pelican Publishing. November 2007. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-4556-0825-6.
  4. ^ a b c d e Sternberg, Mary Ann (2013). Along the River Road: Past and Present on Louisiana's Historic Byway. Louisiana State University Press. pp. 282–. ISBN 978-0-8071-5062-7.

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