3/5 Malavika K. 1 year ago on Google
If
you’re
interesting
in
stepping
through
a
mansion
furnished
with
the
bells
and
whistles
of
the
late
1700s
to
early
1900s,
consider
visiting
the
mansion
at
the
Bayou
Bend
Collection
at
Gardens.
If
you’re
only
interesting
in
enjoying
a
still
around
their
beautiful
and
quite
spacious
gardens,
then
there
is
an
option
to
purchase
a
slightly
cheaper
ticket
to
see
just
that
-
about
$19
to
visit
both
mansion
and
gardens,
$10
to
visit
just
the
gardens.
We
went
on
a
Saturday
afternoon
and
were
pretty
much
on
our
own,
on
our
self
guided
tour
of
the
gardens.
There
is
a
QR
code
Which
can
be
scanned
at
the
ticketing
entrance,
Which
directs
to
a
website
which
has
audio
and
transcript
describing
each
Garden
as
well
as
each
room
within
the
mansion,
as
well
as
the
significance
of
objects
displayed
in
the
rooms.
Strolling
through
the
Gardens,
Even
on
a
sunny
hot
summer
afternoon,
was
quite
pleasant,
as
the
garden
has
plenty
of
tree
cover.
As
soon
as
you
step
into
the
house
for
a
tour/self
guided
tour,
you’ll
see
that
there
are
gallery
attendants
in
almost
each
room,
to
guide
visitors
as
well
as
ensure
no
damage
is
caused
to
objects
within
the
rooms.
The
rooms’
set
up
is
certainly
intriguing.
It
was
definitely
a
weird
feeling
stepping
through
a
house
entirely
paid
for
by
exacting
fortunes
based
on
the
misfortune
and
enslavement
of
others
(read
up
on
the
Hogg
family
and
feel
free
to
skip
a
tour
of
the
house
if
what
you
read
is
more
than
just
un-palatable
to
you).
No
doubt
the
property
itself
is
worthy
of
4
or
5
stars.
However,
given
the
times
which
the
rooms
are
staged
to
reflect
and
the
times
we
are
in
now,
it
was
surprising
that
there
was
no
mention
of
what
life
was
like
for
whose
toiled
to
make
the
riches
of
this
property
possible
-
be
that
on
the
oil
fields
or
in
the
cotton
plantations.
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