Belle Alliance | |
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Location | Along Louisiana Highway 308, about 0.62 miles (1.00 km) northeast of Belle Rose, Louisiana |
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Nearest city | Belle Alliance, Louisiana |
Coordinates | 30°03′20″N91°02′00″W / 30.05555°N 91.03332°W |
Area | 5.98 acres (2.42 ha) |
Built | 1846 |
Architect | Paul Andry |
Architectural style | Italianate, Greek Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 98001425 [1] |
Added to NRHP | November 23, 1998 |
Belle Alliance is an Italianate and Greek Revival plantation house in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, U.S.A. It is the namesake of the unincorporated community of Belle Alliance. [2] [3]
The town and the plantation are located on the east bank of Bayou Lafourche, about 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Donaldsonville and about 0.62 miles (1.00 km) northeast of Belle Rose.
During the 1770s, this 7,000-acre (28 km2) plot was granted to Don Juan Vives, a physician and military officer of the Spanish government. [4] The Belle Alliance plantation house was built by Charles Anton Kock, a successful planter who used the forced labor of enslaved people to grow sugar and also owned the St. Emma Plantation around 1846. [5]
The plantation house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. [1]
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