Argyle is a historic house on a former sugarcane plantation in

Houma, Louisiana Houma ( ) is the largest city in, and the parish seat of, Terrebonne Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is also the largest principal city of the Houma– Bayou Cane–Thibodaux metropolitan statistical area. The city's government ...

. It was built circa 1906 for Phelin Bonvillain, a sugar planter. With It belongs to the Ingram family since 1947. The house was designed in the Eastlake architectural style, with "a few

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...

features." It has been listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

since July 1, 1994.

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National Register of Historic Places in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana Queen Anne architecture in Louisiana Colonial Revival architecture in Louisiana Houses completed in 1906 Plantation houses in Louisiana 1906 establishments in Louisiana {{Louisiana-NRHP-stub