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Windrush Gardens
Windrush Gardens Adjacent to the Rural Life Museum are the Windrush Gardens and Burden Home, donated to LSU in 1972 by the late Ione Burden and the late Steele Burden. This 25-acre expanse of semiformal gardens, with winding paths, lakes, and open areas, was designed and planted by Mr. Burden, a renowned landscape architect. The crepe myrtles, azaleas, camellias, and other plants are representative of flora used in 19th century plantation gardens. There are numerous bronze or marble statues, mostly from Europe, throughout the gardens.
No charge to view the gardens. If you know your way around here, this could be a park and grab.
if this is your first time here, please park at the museum and walk to the gardens to find the cache.
Open Daily * 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed * New Year's Day, Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.
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Rural Life Museum
The Rural Life Museum, located on the 450-acre Burden Research Plantation, provides insight into the largely forgotten lifestyles and cultures of pre-industrial Louisiana. Home to extensive collections of tools, household utensils, furniture, vehicles, and farming implements, the museum preserves an important part of the rural heritage of Louisiana and the nation.
The museum includes more than 20 buildings, spread over five acres of the plantation, divided into three areas:
* The Barn contains hundreds of artifacts dealing with everyday rural life up to the early 20th century.
* The Working Plantation consists of a complex of buildings - commissary, overseer's house, kitchen, slave cabins, sick house, school house, blacksmith's shop, sugarhouse, and grist mill-authentically furnished to reconstruct all the major activities of life on a typical 19th century working plantation.
* The Folk Architecture consists of seven buildings with divergent forms of construction illustrating the various cultures of Louisiana-a country church, a pioneer's cabin with corncrib and potato house, a shotgun house, an Acadian house, and a dogtrot house.
Tour Information:
Open Daily * 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed * New Year's Day, Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.
Groups of 10 or more require an appointment for a docent-led tour. Admission Charges * Museum and Gardens Ages 5 years-11 years $4 Age 12 and older $7 Senior Citizens $6
For information, please write or call: Rural Life Museum P. O. Box 80498 Baton Rouge, LA 70898 Telephone * 225/765-2437 FAX * 225/765-2639
Visit our home page at http://rurallife.lsu.edu
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