Oak Alley Plantation

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Oak Alley Plantation Mansion.

Oak Alley Plantation is a historic plantation located on the Mississippi River in the town of Vacherie, Louisiana, United States of America. It is protected as a National Historic Landmark. It is named after its distinguishing feature, an alley of a double row of live oaks about 240-meter long, which was planted in the early 18th century, long before the present house was built. The alley leads towards the Mississippi River.

Oak Alley Plantation seen from the direction of the Mississippi River.

The mansion on the plantation was built between 1837 and 1839 for Jacques Telesphore Roman. Jacques Telesphore Roman's father-in-law, Joseph Pilie, was an architect and is considered the likely designer. The mansion has a square floor plan, organized around a central hall that runs from the front to the rear on both floors. The outside features a free-standing colonnade of 28 Doric columns, a common feature among the mansions in the Mississippi Valley at the time.

Oak Alley Plantation, which was originally named Bon Séjour, was sold at an auction in 1866. After passing through the hands of a succession of owners, it had fallen into disrepair in the 1920s. In 1925, the property was acquired by Andrew and Josephine Stewart, who commissioned the architect Richard Koch to conduct extensive restoration work.

After Josephine Stewart's death, the management of the plantation was placed in the hands of a nonprofit organization, which opened the plantation to the public.

The street address of Oak Alley Plantation is: 3645 Highway 18 (Great River Road), Vacherie, LA 70090, USA.

Oat Alley Plantation is also located adajcent to St. Joseph Plantation on La. 18, the Great River Road. Both plantations are National Register of Historic Places of the United States.