Les Chenes Verts - Baton Rouge, LA
N 30° 20.921 W 091° 03.755
15R E 686220 N 3359014
Also known as Live Oaks. Located on south eastern corner of Highland Rd and Jean Lafitte Ave. Privately owned home, photos & coordinates were taken from outside gate.
Waymark Code: WM4Y5C
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 10/12/2008
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Privately owned home. Pics were as good as I could get. Looked restored and to be in fine condition. Grounds were kept, and building looked good from distance.
Here is a bit of history, I found from Register application
Live Oaks.Les Chenes Verts (c. 1830) is a two story raised Creole plantation house of brick and frame
construction. It stands within East Baton Rouge Parish on a large suburban plot which maintains
much of its former rural character. Although moved from its original St. Landry Parish location, a rare example of the apex of the French Creole
building tradition.
Les Chenes Verts was originally located between Opelousas and Washington in St. Landry
Parish. It stood within a grove of large oak and pecan trees along a rural gravel road. Vacant for
many years, the house was open to the elements and suffered deterioration before being purchased
by the current owners in 1985. As a result of this neglect, cattle had roamed freely throughout the
lower floor. In addition, vandals had written graffiti on the walls and lighted dangerous fires in the
interior. The house would most certainly have been lost had the new owners not moved it to East
Baton Rouge Parish in 1991. Its new site, although in a suburban area, still has the feel of rural
countryside. Reached by a gravel drive, the house now stands back from the road on a deeply
wooded lot with rolling topography and its own private pond. Thus, the new setting is not at all
inappropriate to the historic house.