Belle Alliance Plantation

Belle Alliance
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city	Donaldsonville, Louisiana
Coordinates	30°3′20″N 91°1′59″W / 30.05556°N 91.03306°WCoordinates: 30°3′20″N 91°1′59″W / 30.05556°N 91.03306°W
Built	1846
Architect	Andry, Paul
Architectural style	Italianate, Greek Revival
NRHP Reference #	98001425[1]
Added to NRHP	November 23, 1998

Belle Alliance is an Italianate and Greek Revival plantation house in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, U.S.A. It is the namesake of the unincorporated community of Belle Alliance.^[2] The town and the plantation are located on the east bank of Bayou Lafourche, 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.^[3] The Belle Alliance plantation house was built by a successful sugar planter Charles Anton Kock, also owner of St. Emma Plantation around 1846.^[4]

The plantation house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.^[1]

References

1. National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. Leeper, Clare D'Artois (19 October 2012). Louisiana Place Names: Popular, Unusual, and Forgotten Stories of Towns, Cities, Plantations, Bayous, and Even Some Cemeteries. LSU Press. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-8071-4740-5.
3. www.rootsweb.com "BELLE ALLIANCE PLANTATION"
4. www.discoverourtown.com "Belle Alliance Plantation"

External links

• Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. LA-1272, "Belle Alliance Plantation, 7244 Highway 308 South, Donaldsonville vicinity, Assumption Parish, LA", 38 measured drawings
• Belle Alliance Plantation website