Petite Antiques Forum and House Tours 2024
24th Annual Petite Antiques Forum and House Tours on Thursday, January 25, 2023
This year’s speaker was Jim Blanchard, a contemporary topographical artist known for his archival architectural watercolors of historic Louisiana buildings. During his lecture, “From Jackson Square to the State Capitol: An 1850s Voyage on the Mississippi from New Orleans to Baton Rouge,” Blanchard used images of his paintings to give a “steamboat tour” on the Mississippi and he also touched on the architecture of the Lafourche country.
The Lunch at Houmas House included the garden stroll and entry to The Great River Road Museum.
The house tours featured two private historic homes. Belle Alliance, located on the east bank of Bayou Lafourche in Assumption Parish, and originally an 18th-century Spanish land grant, was acquired in the 1840s by Charles Kock, a German émigré, who had the imposing Greek Revival mansion built. Palo Alto, located on the west bank of Bayou Lafourche in Ascension Parish, is an Anglo-Creole type cottage with Greek Revival decoration. The plantation’s name commemorates the 1846 Mexican War battle where General Zachary Taylor’s American army vanquished the Mexican troops.
We would like to thanks our Sponsors:
Pat Alford
Janet and Sanford Arst
Barbara Bacot
Robert and Linda Bowsher
BREC
The Eaton Family
Houmas House
Jessica Kemm
Harriet Babin Miller
Neal Auction
Thomasgraphics
Donna Wright
The Zobrist Family
This year’s speaker was Jim Blanchard, a contemporary topographical artist known for his archival architectural watercolors of historic Louisiana buildings. During his lecture, “From Jackson Square to the State Capitol: An 1850s Voyage on the Mississippi from New Orleans to Baton Rouge,” Blanchard used images of his paintings to give a “steamboat tour” on the Mississippi and he also touched on the architecture of the Lafourche country.
The Lunch at Houmas House included the garden stroll and entry to The Great River Road Museum.
The house tours featured two private historic homes. Belle Alliance, located on the east bank of Bayou Lafourche in Assumption Parish, and originally an 18th-century Spanish land grant, was acquired in the 1840s by Charles Kock, a German émigré, who had the imposing Greek Revival mansion built. Palo Alto, located on the west bank of Bayou Lafourche in Ascension Parish, is an Anglo-Creole type cottage with Greek Revival decoration. The plantation’s name commemorates the 1846 Mexican War battle where General Zachary Taylor’s American army vanquished the Mexican troops.
We would like to thanks our Sponsors:
Pat Alford
Janet and Sanford Arst
Barbara Bacot
Robert and Linda Bowsher
BREC
The Eaton Family
Houmas House
Jessica Kemm
Harriet Babin Miller
Neal Auction
Thomasgraphics
Donna Wright
The Zobrist Family
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Speaker: Brock Jobe, Professor emeritus of American Decorative Arts Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
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Speaker: Janine Skerry, Senior Curator of Metals Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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Speaker: Walter Denny, Distinguished Professor of Art History at the university of Massachusetts at Amherst
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2016
Speaker: Thomas Savage, Director of museum affairs The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museums and Gardens
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2015
Speaker: Ronald L. Hurst, Vice president for collections, conservation and museums The Carliste H. Humesline, Chief curator of Colonial Williamsburg
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Speaker: Carolyn Weekley, Juli Granger curator of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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