Sweet Bottom Plantation Tour

This Sweet Bottom home was inspired by the manor house of Chretien Point Plantation along Bayou Bourbeau in Louisiana. The mansion was the center of a 3,000 acre cotton plantation built by French Canadian Hypolite Chretien. It was designed so that rooms fully opened onto the upper and lower galleries, allowing cool breezes to flow throughout the interior spaces. The steep hipped roof is supported by six Tuscan columns and lunettes grace the tops of all gallery doors and windows. A Civil War battle was fought on plantation grounds and the home’s staircase design was copied for “Tara” in the film “Gone With the Wind”.