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Belle Alliance
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| Nearest city: | Donaldsonville, Louisiana |
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| Built: | 1846 |
| Architect: | Andry, Paul |
| Architectural style: | Italianate, Greek Revival |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 98001425[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | November 23, 1998 |
Belle Alliance is an Italianate and Greek Revival plantation house in Assumption Parish, Louisiana. An unincorporated community named Belle Alliance is named after the Plantation. The community and/or the plantation is located on the east bank of Bayou Lafourche in Assumption Parish, about five miles (8 km) out of Donaldsonville.
During the 1770s, this 7,000-acre (28 km2) plot was granted to Don Juan Vives, a physician and military officer of the Spanish government.[2] The actual Belle Alliance Plantation was built by a successful sugar planter Charles Anton Kock, also owner of St. Emma Plantation around 1846.[3]
The plantation was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.[1]
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