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Audubon State Historic Site is a state park property in
West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana West Feliciana Parish (French: ''Paroisse de Feliciana Ouest''; Spanish: ''Parroquia de West Feliciana'') is a civil parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2010 census, the population was 15,625, and 15,310 at the 2020 census. ...
, between the towns of St. Francisville and
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. It is the location where noted
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and artist
John James Audubon John James Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin; April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was an American self-trained artist, naturalist, and ornithologist. His combined interests in art and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictori ...
spent the summer of 1821. Visitors come to see Oakley Plantation house, where Audubon lived at the time, and the surrounding
plantation A plantation is an agricultural estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops, usually mainly planted with a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. Th ...
grounds. A portion of the site contains the forest which served as a setting for many of the 32 '' Birds of America'' paintings that Audubon created or began while at Oakley.


Plantation house

Built circa 1806, the Oakley Plantation house is an example of early
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architecture in
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, located on its historic site. Its interior rooms have been renovated in the style of the Federal period. Audubon spent four months at the home in 1821, teaching Eliza Pirrie, the teen-aged daughter of the plantation's owners James Pirrie and Lucretia "Lucy" Alston (Pirrie), to draw. This is when he completed his nature drawings on the site. The house was placed 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 ...
in 1973 for its historical significance.


Photo gallery


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in West Felicia ...
* Locust Grove State Historic Site * Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site *
List of Louisiana state historic sites This List of Louisiana state historic sites contains the 17 state historic sites governed by the Office of State Parks, a division of Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism in the U.S. state of Louisiana, as of 2011. State hist ...


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External links


Audubon State Historic Site Official web pageWest Feliciana Historical Society MuseumWest Feliciana Tourist Commission
Landmarks in Louisiana Louisiana State Historic Sites Protected areas of West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana Museums in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana Historic house museums in Louisiana Houses in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana National Society of the Colonial Dames of America Slave cabins and quarters in the United States {{Louisiana-geo-stub