Houmas House Plantation and Gardens

The Houmas, historically known as Burnside Plantation and today marketed as Houmas House Plantation and Gardens, is a historic plantation complex on the River Road between Baton Rouge and New Orleans near Darrow/Burnside, Louisiana. The estate traces its origins to the late 1700s, and the current main house was completed in 1840. The name recalls the Houma people who originally inhabited this area of Louisiana. The property operates as a house museum and public garden, offers tours, and functions as an event and wedding venue; it has also served as a filming location (notably for scenes in the film Green Book). Although plantation sites in Louisiana are often discussed within broader contexts of regional folklore, the research materials supplied for this entry do not present any specific paranormal phenomena, eyewitness accounts, named spirits, or investigative reports associated with Houmas House. Multiple independent sources corroborate the site's historical and touristic facts, accessibility features (including ramps and an elevator), and contemporary cultural uses, but none of the provided excerpts attribute hauntings or supernatural occurrences to this location. Because the available documentation is focused on history, tourism, accessibility, and media use rather than on supernatural claims, this entry does not assert paranormal events beyond noting the absence of such claims in the supplied sources.