Houma - Southdown Plantation (Terrebonne Museum)

The Southdown Plantation House in Houma was built in 1859. It is a sugar manor house and home to the Terrebonne Museum of history and culture. The home was built as a one-story Greek Revival house by sugar planter William J Minor. His son, Henry C Minor added the second floor and Victorian-style architectural features in 1893.

Exhibits include original bedroom furniture of the Minor family and other antique furnishings; a history and culture room; a Mardi Gras room; a Native Peoples room; works by local artists; a sugar industry room; Boehm and Doughty porcelain birds; Charles Gilbert art collection; Thad St. Martin literature collection; and a restored 1880's plantation worker's cabin.