Highlands/Perkins in Baton Rouge in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana — The American South (West South Central)
Bagatelle Kitchen
c. 1840
Photographed By Cajun Scrambler, December 28, 2017
1. Bagatelle Kitchen Marker
Inscription.
Bagatelle Kitchen. c. 1840. , The kitchen was built c. 1840 on Bagatelle Plantation near Union, Louisiana. It served as a kitchen originally but was later converted to a schoolhouse that was run by 3 of the Tureaud sisters.
The building was changed back to a kitchen upon being moved to the Rural Life Museum in 1972. It was built from mortise-and-tenon construction, with original briquette-entre-poteaux walls and an umbrella-style, pyramidal hip roof. Although placed at the overseer's house here, it would have been the type of kitchen to serve a plantation house. Meals were prepared over an open-hearth fireplace. ,
Donated: given in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Henderson James, Sr., by their children.
The kitchen was built c. 1840 on Bagatelle Plantation near Union, Louisiana. It served as a kitchen originally but was later converted to a schoolhouse that was run by 3 of the Tureaud sisters.
The building was changed back to a kitchen upon being moved to the Rural Life Museum in 1972. It was built from mortise-and-tenon construction, with original briquette-entre-poteaux walls and an umbrella-style, pyramidal hip roof. Although placed at the overseer's house here, it would have been the type of kitchen to serve a plantation house. Meals were prepared over an open-hearth fireplace.
Donated: given in memory of Mr. & Mrs. Francis Henderson James, Sr., by their children.
Erected by LSU Rural Life Museum. (Marker Number 8.)
Location. 30° 24.624′ N, 91° 6.928′ W. Marker is in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in East Baton Rouge Parish. It is in Highlands/Perkins. Marker can be reached from Essen Lane (State Road 3064) south of Interstate 10, on the right when traveling south. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 4560 Essen Lane, Baton Rouge LA 70808, United States of America. Touch for directions.
More about this marker. Located on the grounds of the LSU Rural Life Museum
Also see . . . LSU Rural Life Museum. (Submitted on January 1, 2018, by Cajun Scrambler of Assumption, Louisiana.)
Photographed By Cajun Scrambler, December 28, 2017
2. Bagatelle Kitchen Marker
December 28, 2017
3. Bagatelle Kitchen Interior
Photographed By David Seibert, circa 1968
4. Bagatelle Plantation House
This is the Bagatelle Plantation House, built in 1842, in its original location in St. James Parish. The house and its outbuildings were moved upriver to a new location in Iberville Parish in 1977. During the move (by barge) bad weather caused one of the outbuildings to fall off the barge into the Mississippi River.
Credits. This page was last revised on February 12, 2023. It was originally submitted on January 1, 2018, by Cajun Scrambler of Assumption, Louisiana. This page has been viewed 305 times since then and 24 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3. submitted on January 1, 2018. 4. submitted on January 1, 2018, by David Seibert of Sandy Springs, Georgia.
