Magnolia Mound Plantation House
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Magnolia Mound Plantation House
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Front of the house
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| Location | 2161 Nicholson Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
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| Coordinates | 30°25′34″N 91°11′13″W / 30.42611°N 91.18694°WCoordinates: 30°25′34″N 91°11′13″W / 30.42611°N 91.18694°W |
| Built | 1786 |
| Architectural style | French Colonial, Other |
| NRHP Reference # | 72000549 |
| Added to NRHP | September 7, 1972 |
The Magnolia Mound Plantation House is a French Creole house constructed in 1791 near the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Many period documents refer to the plantation as Mount Magnolia. The house and several original outbuildings on the grounds of Magnolia Mound Plantation are examples of the vernacular architectural influences of early settlers from France and the West Indies. The complex is owned by the city of Baton Rouge and maintained by its Recreation Commission (BREC). It is located approximately one mile south of downtown. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
The plantation house, first a cottage, is one of the earliest buildings in the present-day city of Baton Rouge.
The land was owned originally by James Hillin, an early Scots settler who arrived in 1786, who lived there with wife Jane Stanley Hillin, five children, and six enslaved Africans: Thomas, John, Lucia, Catherine, Jenny, and Anna. On December 23, 1791, John Joyce, from County Cork, Ireland, purchased the 950-acre (3.8 km2) property. He, his wife Constance Rochon and their children lived in Mobile, Alabama. By the time of his drowning, on May 9, 1798, during a sailing trip from New Orleans to Mobile, Joyce held about 50 slaves at the plantation, who cultivated indigo, tobacco, cotton, and sugarcane under the supervision of an overseer.
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