Audubon State Historic Site is a state park area located near St. Francisville, Louisiana. It is the location where noted artist John James Audubon spent the Summer of 1821. Visitors come to see the Oakley House, where Audubon lived at the time, and the surrounding plantation grounds. A portion of the 100-acre (0.40 km2) site contains the forest which served as a setting for many of the 32 paintings that Audubon created or instigated while at Oakley.[1]
Oakley House [edit]
Build circa 1806, the Oakley house is an example of colonial architecture located on the historic site. Interior rooms have been renovated to the style of the federal period. Audubon spent four months at the house attempting to teach Eliza Pirrie, the daughter of the estate owner, to draw. This is the time that Audubon completed his drawings on the site.[2]
The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 for its historical significance.[1]
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Rear view of the Oakley house
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Back yard of the Oakley house
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Children's room in the Oakley house
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Slave cabin on the grounds
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Oakley plantation gardens
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State Preservation Area
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State Forests
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State Wildlife Refuges
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- Elmer's Island
- Marsh Island
- Rockefeller
- St. Tammany
- State
- Terrebonne Barrier Islands
- White Lake Wetlands
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Wildlife management areas
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- Acadiana Conservation Corridor
- Atchafalaya Delta
- Attakapas
- Barataria Preserve
- Bayou Macon
- Bayou Pierre
- Ben's Creek
- Big Colewa Bayou
- Big Lake
- Biloxi
- Bodcau
- Boeuf
- Bonnet Carre Spillway
- Buckhorn
- Camp Beauregard
- Catahoula Lake
- Clear Creek
- Dewey Wills
- Elbow Slough
- Elm Hall
- Floy Ward McElroy
- Fort Polk
- Grassy Lake
- Hutchinson Creek
- Indian Bayou
- Jackson Bienville
- Joyce
- Lake Boeuf
- Lake Ramsey Savannah
- Little River
- Loggy Bayou
- Manchac
- Marsh Bayou
- Maurepas Swamp
- Old River Control
- Ouachita
- Pass A Loutre
- Pearl River
- Peason Ridge
- Pointe-aux-Chenes
- Pomme de Terre
- Red River
- Russell Sage
- Sabine Island
- Sabine
- Salvador/Timken
- Sandy Hollow
- Sherburne
- Sicily Island Hills
- Soda Lake
- Spring Bayou
- Tangipahoa Parish School Board
- Thistlethwaite
- Three Rivers
- Tunica Hills
- Union
- Walnut Hill
- West Bay
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