Built 1812 Opened 1812 Function Plantation Nearest city Darrow, Louisiana | NRHP Reference # 73000859 Area 10 ha Added to NRHP 13 April 1973 | |
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Architectural style Greek Revival architecture Similar Ashland Plantation, Belle Grove Plantation, Madewood Plantation House, Butler Greenwood Plantation, Evergreen Plantation | ||
L'Hermitage is a Greek Revival plantation home. Marius Pons Bringier commissioned the home to be built in Burnside, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, as a wedding gift for his son, Michel Douradou Bringier (1789-1847), in 1812.
Michel served as an aide to Andrew Jackson on the Chalmette battlefield (1814-15) during the War of 1812. L'Hermitage was named after General Andrew Jackson's home in Nashville, Tennessee.
General and Mrs. Jackson visited here in the 1820s.
This is likely the plantation on which Pierre Caliste Landry grew up; he was born on the Prevost plantation and was purchased at age 13 (circa 1854) by a Bringier family member who inherited L'Hermitage. After the American Civil War, Landry became Mayor of Donaldsonville and the first African American mayor in the United States.