It was free so cant complain too much, but nothing was open. Walk around only. Neat old houses and trees.

The volunteers here go out of their way to make this an exceptional and fun learning place. I love their First Free Sunday tour. Thank you!

We had a great tour guide and they were doing a cooking demonstration in our side kitchen. It’s worth the time it take to find it.

We went on First Free Sundays in Baton Rouge. Thats when the art and science museums are open free admission. Also the USS KID is awesome to climb around on. It was a destroyer. Goggle 1st free Sundays in Baton Rouge...it will all pop up.

The staff was friendly and the grounds were well kept. The selection of books is educational for both black and white history

Take a trip 200 years back in time! Nice grounds, interesting docents and questions welcomed. Huge ancient oak trees and outbuildings complete the story of the people who started life on the River, made themselves rich and their history is still here for us to touch. Free first Sundays with visiting artists from time to time. A terrific afternoon trip.

The grounds are gorgeous and the trees are so cool! The tour was interesting and informative. My family enjoyed it even though it poured rain!

Pleasant afternoon on beautiful grounds

I had a wonderful time visiting with my mom and daughter. The tour guides were very knowledgeable, the furnishings and clothing of the guides and actors were correct for the period. We learned a lot about the people and culture of the time. The kitchen was amazing and the guides and demonstrators in there were really great.

Guide was knowledgeable, friendly, helpful, neat.

Cool place to visit must see if your into southern history

Beth was Wonderful!! The Tour is 45 minutes Long and very Informative. Cool to learn about some history here in Baton Rouge.

Very good tour. The guided tour was excellent. You should come here.

Only in the Nolia, are you able to be lost and never found with some of the semi best around and able to pound your mound with an upside down frown in the Magnolia Mound. So come and stop for a visit today even if its a quicky.

Very interesting guided tour.

I was a docent for this property for more than a year. I loved that it was a colonial house with the beautiful cove ceiling in the living area. A beautiful open property, with a wonderful collection of out buildings. Great kitchen docents, who churned out great food, and maintained the exceptional kitchen and medicinal garden. I was truly horrified to discover that this property has lost all its colonial flavor and style. The fences everywhere have chopped up the property and the overhead street light is certainly not period! Painting the interior woodwork brown is also not period!! I am truly broken-hearted to see these ill-conceived changes. I am also quite sure the Duplantiers are rolling over in their graves! So very disappointed! I understand the need for change, but this is one of the few true colonial/federal homes in the area, and state. Sad, very very sad! Times may change, but history does not! These changes have done a major disservice to this property! As a docent at Magnolia Mound, and a life-long Louisiana history aficionado, it pains me to no end to see this decline.

I went to Magnolia Mound Plantation with my daughter on a field trip and we had a great time. The outdoor kitchen was my favorite part. It was very informative. I unfortunately could not go into some area because it was too crowded but the places I did get to go were really neat.

It was nice and our guide was very knowledgeable. But my only complaint is the vegetable garden was horrible not maintained at all, but other than than its a nice place to occupy a couple of hours.

Really cool tour with some interesting history!

Lots of antiques. Good amounts of history from docent. Recommend the guided tour.

Despite the thundering downpour which cut short our chance to see the grounds it was a great tour. Our tour guide was enthusiastic and knowledgeable.She pointed out which of the precious few original things have survived the passage of time and changing of hands, and what has been reproduced based on clues like the privi.Its so sad that so much has been lost like all the information and evidence about the slaves when the cabins and overseers home was wiped out by a tornado.

The tour guide went around speaking about the slaves and quickly answered any questions pertaining of them. Was more so about the owners of the slaves and how they lived ect. Very informative of the family and there wealth from cotton.

It was a nice tour. The guide was very knowledgeable about her history of this plantation. But the actual artifacts have been replaced by what they believe to be period pieces. The grounds are very well kept. But the overseers place you only can look through plexiglass to see. Slave quarters were open and they have an outdoor covered auditorium. It took about 2 hours to go through.

It was very good. The tour guide gave so much information about the house and everything on the plantation. The only down fall was that we had thought it was Christmas themed witch was what brought our family in the first place it was nothing about Christmas.

Very interesting

Beth gave a very interesting guided tour of the interior of the house. Highly recommended. Make sure to walk the grounds to see the exteriors of the other buildings.

Very interesting spot. A great tour. Worth the stop. Just off I10.

Loved tour guide, but tour only covered main house and kitchen. Wish it had gone into how slaves lives were and covered their importance to place. Loved store lots of goods at reasonable prices.

Merakey Gateway Transition Programs Wine Walk at the Mound to benefit Autism was a lovely event filled with live jazz music, a silent auction and a wonderfully large selection of wines. This venue was perfectly selected for such a fundraiser.

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Fun and very detailed just wish we could of gone to more of the sites

Take the tour!!! The house is full of interesting artifacts... Well worth the stop. Allow at least an hour!

The docent was very informative, energetic and delightful. The main home was simply magnificent and the grounds were beautiful. However, the gardens need maintenance.

Beautiful old historic plantation home. Short distance from the Mississippi River. My first sightseeing tour of Baton Rouge. I was told that this was a must see. We got there in time for the last tour of the day. Tour guide was very knowledgeable of the early days of the plantation, and its restoration. Home was decorated with Items. We also got to tour the outside kitchen, since it most days it was too hot to have the kitchen inside, Lot of neat stuff. Most of the outbuildings are not open for you to enter but have windows to look through. First time Ive ever seen a three hole outhouse. Beautiful grounds with lots of oaks and magnolias. They did add air conditioning to the main house, so its a great break from the heat and humidity.

It was free and our tour guide was awesome.

The guides are very well versed on the history of the place. The tour and the time spent here are well worth it. The house is stunning, and has so many artifacts. Visit the amazing oak trees in the front of the house. Wonderful piece of BATON Rouge history.

House of horrors. Should join the other great wonders of the world. And of the seven only one remain in tact on the African continent engineered by people darker than blue Africans. All six of the neanderthal built blonder of the world or only His/story !!!!!!!

Cool place to check out!

Even though the plantation is small as well as the house this was very interesting and informative. The guide was extraordinary, talented, well versed in the history of the plantation and made it a wonderful time share with our family.

The Magnolia Mound Plantation is a French Creole house constructed in 1791 near the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge that is one of the earliest buildings in the present-day capital of Louisiana. The house and several original outbuildings on the grounds are examples of the vernacular architectural influences of the early settlers from France and the West Indies. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The land was originally owned by James Hillin, an early Scottish settler who arrived in 1786. Descendants owned the plantation until 1849. In 1966, the City of Baton Rouge purchased the 16-acre property in order to preserve the house and its dependencies for their historic and architectural value. It is a green space within the city. The cottage was originally four rooms. In 1812, it was expanded to an eight-room house, including an extension for a formal dining room and two service rooms. During the 19th century, owners added rooms under the gallery on the north and south sides. The basic form of the house is rectangular with a large hip roof, which covers all rooms and galleries. In 1998, the city installed an original double slave cabin (circa 1830) to help interpret the lives of enslaved Africans. One half is furnished as it would have been in the 19th century while the other half is an exhibit on slave life in Louisiana. The outbuildings, some original to the plantation, show how the operations of the plantation were supported. They include the open-hearth kitchen, the overseers house, the crop garden, the carriage house and the pigeonnier, which was used to house squab and other game birds. Interestingly, the pigeonnier also is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Located at 2161 Nicholson Drive, Magnolia Mound is a fascinating place to visit because it depicts life on an antebellum plantation as it was, much more realistically than at many other historic sites.

Much more scenic and interesting than I was expecting. Great place to bring the kids to run around some beautiful land and learn a little about history. They have a cute little garden area too.

Very neat and educational experience. Volunteers were knowledgeable and kind!

Beautiful grounds. Unfortunately thats all we were able to see. We payed for the self guided tour on the recommendation of the staff. We have small children and they said they would get bored half way through the guided tour. That made perfect sense, however they didnt tell us that you cant go inside the buildings on the self guided tour. So we basically go a close up view of what we had already seen driving through to the parking area.

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Its a bit pricey if you take the tour...I think its around $10 per person. However, its only $3 without a tour. And, the fees directly support the facility. My tour guide was very knowledgeable, I learned a lot of new things. This is a unique museum of an antebellum Creole sugar plantation. The collection of kitchen implements from that time is a curious display. The gift shop offers similarly unique books and souvenirs.

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A must see for the historic buff. This is the home of Armand Duplantier, who fought alongside Marquis de Lafayette.

Great history! Located next to LSU. Smaller plantation, but good experience. The guide was very informative

Air conditioner broke, so we couldnt go on a tour.

Nicely preserved. Guided tours are nice, not crowded and not rushed.

Very informative.

Nice little plantation for the ticket price.

Not handicap accessible

Really nice people and they share their information

Great tour! Very friendly staff! The tour guide gave lots of information about the house! We had a great tour!

Amazing!!!

Location:Easy to find with Google Maps, short drive from the hotels in the downtown area. Also close to LSU campus. Youll access the gravel driveway off Nicholson Dr. and pass through a large iron gate. Follow the signs. The gravel driveway will curve around a small education building and go towards the back of the plantation. Look for a sign that says Tours Start Here, parking will be nearby. Go in to the visitor center to get started. Im not sure of the tour scheduling, but I just popped in about a quarter to three and my tour started at three.Cost:I believe it was $3 for a self-guided tour of the grounds and $10 for the guided tour. With self-guided you may walk everywhere and step up to windows to peek in, but you may not go inside the main house. With guided, you do all of the above, and you will be given a lovely, historically informative tour inside of the main house. My guide was funny and she knew her stuff! In my opinion the guided is worth the extra cost if you love historic home interiors and want to know the details of the history.Time Commitment:I would say half an hour for self guided, if you dont meander too much, and an hour plus if you do the guided tour and take your time. The average time spent that Google suggests (25 minutes) seems on the short side.Experience:Enjoyable! The grounds are typical of other plantation homes, with slave quarters, etc. Still, they are pretty to walk through. The 200 year old live oaks in front of the main house are gorgeous. I do wish there were some flowers around the grounds here and there, but thats just personal taste. The real gem is the Historic House. It has been lovingly restored where nessesary and is one of the prettiest of the smaller plantation homes Ive seen. The interior is well air conditioned, and all of the large windows make the tour a lovely bright experience. Because of its smaller size I feel this would be nice for a family with younger, well-behaved children. Plenty to see and the guide is not rude to kids (something Ive seen on other plantation tours directed at children who were not ill-behaved), but the house is not so big and ornate that it will cause burn out or boredom. The guide does not rush you and you may interact with her and ask questions. With that said, the tour does not drag on, another reason it would be nice for well-behaved children. It will keep them interested without the rest of the family feeling rushed. Really this was a lovely experience and I would recommend it. The gift shop has some unique items and great retro-look postcards.

Very well frozen piece of history. Loved the kitchen museum and the adjacent garden.

Always very interesting to tour a plantation.

Very knowledgeable volunteer

So full of history! Its great

A bit expensive, try to find a free time to enjoy.

Neat to see but tour guide was almost rude to visitors.

Very informative , enjoy walking around

The lady was rude

It was nice

History interesting

Great place to have gatherings. Large or small.

Its ok.

Thanks

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Awsome

Interesting tour

Good historic place!

Beeyotiful loved it

Fun place with good history.

Beautiful place