Alexandria - Kent Plantation House

The Kent House in Alexandria is a Creole plantation house built c 1796 prior to the Louisiana Purchase. Built by Pierre Baillio II, the house is an example of French colonial architecture. The walls were made by filling the spaces between the beams with "bousillage," a mixture of mud, Spanish moss and animal hair.

The original house is furnished with antiques and outbuildings on the grounds include a milk house, carriage house, kitchen, two slave cabins, sugar house, barn, blacksmith shop, a kitchen dependency, an herb and vegetable garden, a parterre garden and a cemetery with original wrought iron fencing and marble headstones.