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Kent Plantation House Description
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.
Hobbies & Activities category: Cemetery;  Garden or botanic display;  Manor or country house;  Architecture - Neo-Classical;  National Register of Buildings
Address
Kent Plantation House
3601 Bayou Rapides Road
Alexandria, LA 71303-3654
United States
Phone 1 (318) 487-5998
Fax 1 (318) 442-4154
Hours
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Closed11:0011:0011:0011:0011:0011:0011:00
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Closed15:0015:0015:0015:0015:0015:0015:00
Always closed on:
New Year's Day (January 1)
Thanksgiving - USA (4th Thursday, November)
Christmas - Christian (December 25)
Cost
Adult$6.00
Senior over 65$5.00
Child 6-12$2.00
Military discount$1.00
Child 5 & underFREE
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