Hermitage

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, in 1812.

Type: Building
Description: Greek Revival plantation home in Burnside, Louisiana, United States
Address: LA

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include La La Regira Field and River Road African American Museum.

La La Regira Field

Stadium

La La Regira Field is a baseball stadium located in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, colloquially referred to as "The La La Field". La La Regira Field is currently home to the Ascension Catholic High School baseball team. La La Regira Field is situated 2 miles southwest of Hermitage.

River Road African American Museum

Museum

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River Road African American Museum is a museum of culture and history in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, United States. Founded in 1994, it was among the first Louisiana museums to tell the story of Africans and African Americans, both slave and free. River Road African American Museum is situated 2 miles southwest of Hermitage.

Landry Tomb

Tomb

Photo: Z28scrambler, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Landry Tomb is an historic burial vault located in the cemetery of the Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church in Donaldsonville, Louisiana. The two stage granite monument, containing 24 vaults, was built in 1845 and its design is attributed to James H. Landry Tomb is situated 2 miles southwest of Hermitage.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Donaldsonville and Smoke Bend.

Donaldsonville

Photo: Z28scrambler, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Donaldsonville is a town of about 7000 in the south of Louisiana, along the Mississippi River. Its historic old town is considered to be one of the best kept examples of its kind, and home to a number of pre-Civil War monuments.

Smoke Bend

Hamlet

Smoke Bend is an unincorporated community in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States. A small cottage from the 1870s named Rome House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is located here. Smoke Bend is situated 3½ miles west of Hermitage.

Hermitage

Location: Ascension, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

30.11659° or 30° 6′ 60″ north

Longitude

-90.96343° or 90° 57′ 48″ west

Elevation

23 feet (7 metres)

Open location code

862F428P+JJ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 367131998

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

GeoNames ID

4327296

Wikidata ID

Q5741786

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