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 PomegranateRed
Location: Louisiana
Gender: Female
 |  | LeBeau Plantation- Arabi, LA
< on 3/9/2011 3:35 PM >
|  | | | While in New Orleans a couple of weekends ago, we drove over to Arabi to check out the LeBeau Plantation home. Sadly, it has been closed up and had a fence erected around it, I imagine due to severe deterioration & the liability of having people roaming around in there. I was heartbroken about it being closed up!! I was able to get under the hurricane fence, though.
I still took some pictures of the outside but it was extremely disappointing to me that I couldnt go in...and believe me, I tried, but I wouldve had to cut locks off doors or have had to use a crowbar, or climb into this one ridiculous open point, but there was a serious hive of bees taking over the back porch and flying behind the nailed up boards, so I imagined they were also in the house, which was a good enough reason for me to skip out on trying to get in.
See the hurricane fence? Its probably about 8 feet tall.
Crumbling foundation piers
If you've read about it online or been there, you know that the home was constructed using bricks in between the walls as insulation, which you can see as the house falls apart.
Looking under the house- it really didnt smell too pleasant down there.
The only possible way for me to get into the house without tools. The house is so high off of the ground that the bottom was level with my neck (I'm 5'5), and I wouldve had to climb over this board they had nailed up in there. I'm not sure if someone used this as an entry, or if the house is just falling apart right here.
The back porch (which I read may have actually been considered the front of the home at one time?) This is the porch that had the doorway where a huge swarm of bees had made their home.
To give you an idea of the size of the home, here is a picture my friend took of me while I was studying the bees to decide if I wanted to chance making it into the house (I decided no, obviously), on the same back porch. Again, I'm 5'5. There are no stairs from the ground to the house, I had to lift myself up onto the porch. I am standing (if you look above at my last picture of the back porch) by the 3rd window from the left.
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dwtaylor999
 
Location: Unassigned Lands, Oklahoma
Gender: Male
| | Re: LeBeau Plantation- Arabi, LA
<Reply # 1 on 3/10/2011 12:50 PM >
| | | | Awesome old house. To bad you couldn't get inside.
Ruins, the fate of all cities. |
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Arch-Image
  
Location: DFW
Gender: Male
"This gene pool could use a little chlorine."
| |  | Re: LeBeau Plantation- Arabi, LA
<Reply # 2 on 3/10/2011 6:29 PM >
| | | | beautiful!
"Your kid may be an honor student but YOU'RE still an IDIOT!" |
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yeya
 
Location: La La Land, TX
Gender: Female
| | Re: LeBeau Plantation- Arabi, LA
<Reply # 3 on 3/10/2011 7:26 PM >
| | | | Posted by dwtaylor999
Awesome old house. To bad you couldn't get inside.
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I agree, it would've been awesome if you could've gotten in. Damn them for making it difficult, lol 
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PomegranateRed
Location: Louisiana
Gender: Female
| | Re: LeBeau Plantation- Arabi, LA
<Reply # 4 on 3/14/2011 6:31 PM >
| | | | Yeah, I was extremely disappointed. I mean, sure, I probably wouldve gotten the crap stung out of me by bees or hurt myself in there, but come on...my choice, right? LOL
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powersurge
Location: Austin, Texas
Gender: Female
Please excuse me as I fade into your background
| | Re: LeBeau Plantation- Arabi, LA
<Reply # 5 on 4/7/2011 2:46 AM >
| | | | Posted by PomegranateRed
Yeah, I was extremely disappointed. I mean, sure, I probably wouldve gotten the crap stung out of me by bees or hurt myself in there, but come on...my choice, right? LOL
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Is that place next to the river? I don’t remember the name but it looks the same I think I may have taken a field trip there once when I Lived in St Bernard. I’ve always wondered what happened to that place after the hurricane.
and yes the day will come you shall die here..the day will come when it too will be swallowed by decay forgotten …the day will come they discover and fear the ghost that was once you..** VL
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powersurge
Location: Austin, Texas
Gender: Female
Please excuse me as I fade into your background
| | Re: LeBeau Plantation- Arabi, LA
<Reply # 6 on 4/7/2011 5:00 PM >
| | | | Posted by powersurge
Is that place next to the river? I don’t remember the name but it looks the same I think I may have taken a field trip there once when I Lived in St Bernard. I’ve always wondered what happened to that place after the hurricane.
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nevermind this was the place I was way off
and yes the day will come you shall die here..the day will come when it too will be swallowed by decay forgotten …the day will come they discover and fear the ghost that was once you..** VL
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CourtneyLovely
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
Gender: Female
iExplore. iBake. iRead.
| | Re: LeBeau Plantation- Arabi, LA
<Reply # 7 on 4/22/2011 12:43 AM >
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BEES ARE NOTHING!
but i do love old plantations..one of my favorite things about Louisiana.
"As long as there is a lower class, I am in it. As long as there is a criminal element, I am of it."
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PomegranateRed
Location: Louisiana
Gender: Female
| | Re: LeBeau Plantation- Arabi, LA
<Reply # 8 on 5/13/2011 2:13 AM >
| | | | Oh no, these were some angry, hybrid "I'm gonna get ya" bees, trust me. Hahaha. And like this HUGE black sheet of them along the top of the board on the door.
SCARY! =)
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