The confirmed oldest standing building in Baton Rouge isn't downtown.

Interestingly, Pernell, who lives on what remains of the once-extensive plantation, has never stayed in the manor. He now resides in a restored, two-story carriage house beside the mansion.

Plantation owners, mostly from England ... with neck and leg shackles in the first-floor museum at George Washington House, a town house near Bridgetown, also restored by the National Trust, which ...

Visitors are welcome to tour the restored plantation house to admire the stately structure and to learn more about the enslaved laborers who constructed the house. Between the months of April ...

It operated mainly as a cotton plantation until the last crop was planted in 1922. The property has been restored to reflect ... a cotton gin house, a riverside outdoor pavilion and a tree known ...