| Nestled among the sugar cane of rural Iberia Parish, Louisiana, is the Olivier Plantation Store. This turn-of-the-century architectural gem was built in 1908 and functioned as the commissary, office, post office, and hub of Jules Olivier's busy 1,400 acre sugar plantation.
Placed on the National Register in 1980 and documented in the LSU School of Design's award winning entry in the Historic American Buildings Survey, the building remains in the family and is open to the public seasonally on weekends. We invite you to visit the Olivier Plantation Store and enjoy an old-time shopping experience.
We feature many items which were carried in earlier times, such as windup tin toys, oil lamps and supplies, hard-to-find kitchen items, housewares, handmade split oak baskets, art glass, enamelware, linens, old-fashioned toys, musical instruments, some antique hardware, and much more.
The store is a labor of love for Mr. Olivier's great grandchildren, Gregory and Brenda. With the support of their spouses they maintain this window on the past as an operating plantation store. Come by, visit, sit on the porch for a while, and let the years roll away like the wind over the sugar cane. |
