Belle Alliance
National Register of Historic Places

Belle Alliance

Donaldsonbille, Assumption County, Louisiana
Listed
November 23, 1998
Type
Building
Period
Early Republic
Ref No.
98001425

About this property

Belle Alliance is an Italianate and Greek Revival plantation house in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, U.S.A. It is the namesake of the unincorporated community of Belle Alliance. The town and the plantation are located on the east bank of Bayou Lafourche, about 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Donaldsonville and about 0.62 miles (1.00 km) northeast of Belle Rose. During the 1770s, this 7,000-acre (28 km2) plot was granted to Don Juan Vives, a physician and military officer of the Spanish government. The Belle Alliance plantation house was built by Charles Anton Kock, a successful planter who used slave labor to grow sugar and also owned the St. Emma Plantation around 1846. The plantation house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

Location

Donaldsonbille, Assumption County, Louisiana
30.05565, -91.03320

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Sources

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Nearby Historic Sites

St. Emma
Civil War
2 mi
Palo Alto Plantation
Pre Contact
2.4 mi
Palo Alto Dependency
Industrial
2.5 mi
Rome House
Industrial
3.7 mi
Landry Tomb
Early Republic
4.1 mi

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When was Belle Alliance listed on the National Register?

Belle Alliance was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 23, 1998.

What type of historic resource is Belle Alliance?

Belle Alliance is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

What is the period of significance for Belle Alliance?

The period of significance for Belle Alliance is recorded as the early_republic era, specifically around 1815.

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