Audubon State Historic Site

Audubon State Historic Site
Slave cabins at the site.
Map of Louisiana, United States of America
Location	St. Francisville, Louisiana, United States of America
Coordinates
Governing body	Louisiana Office of State Parks
http://www.crt.state.la.us/parks/iaudubon.aspx

Audubon State Historic Site is a state park property in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, between the towns of St. Francisville and Jackson. It is the location where noted ornithologist and artist John James Audubon spent the summer of 1821.

Visitors come to see Oakley Plantation 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 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 Anglo-American architecture in Louisiana, 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 in 1973 for its historical significance.

Photo gallery

Audubon State Historic Site
Rear view of Oakley Plantation house  Back yard of the house  Children's room in the home  Error creating thumbnail: File missing Slave cabin on the grounds  Oakley Plantation gardens  Front view of Oakley Plantation house

External links

• Audubon State Historic Site; Louisiana Dept. of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism web page
• Audubon1821.com