This sprawling Italianate mansion was built in the 1860s for cotton merchant Florence Luling and now survives inside a later apartment complex. Its scale and secluded appearance make it a striking architectural anomaly; view only from lawful public areas.
Filed under roadside oddities: giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
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Source: nps.gov/nr/travel/louisiana/