Construction crews worked from the inside out as they dismantled portions of the historic plantation home.

The land and home was purchased by Jake Giardina and partner Ron Adams in 2003 from the Plater family as part of a 3,000-acre transaction.

The home's future had been a topic of local debate since that time, although there have been no organized attempts to save it.

[2] The 3,400-acre plot of land is now a subdivision which includes a mix of stores, restaurants and homes to the people of Thibodaux.

[5] Acadia Plantation, with its gables, dormer windows, and ornate gallery, was located south of Bayou Lafourche, along the crest of the natural levee.

In 1825 a spring Mississippi River flood drove the brothers from the parish leaving them in need of new headquarters.

On this land the Bowies built Louisiana's first steam-powered sugar mill, although it was unsuccessful and destroyed more cane than it crushed.

In 1830 the brothers purchased the back land totaling the size of the plantation to about twenty-one hundred acres.

Jim's restlessness soon had him joining the adventure of "GTT" gone to Texas, where he later became one of the many heroes of the Battle of the Alamo.

The land was then purchased by John Nelson and his son-in-law, Andrew Jackson Donelson, (a nephew of Mrs. Andrew Jackson) until he died in 1858, and the war and postwar years saw several mortgages and lawsuits developed from Nelson's attempts to hold the plantation together.

[2] The main house at Acadia Plantation was locally significant in the area of architecture as a landmark among late nineteenth–early twentieth century residences in Lafourche Parish.

The present standing structures at Acadia include a c.1890 frame Queen Anne Revival main house, two contemporaneous cottages, and relatively modern outbuildings.

The main entrance of the house was marked by an oeil-de-boeuf gable supported by two enormous brackets.

The complex roof-line consisted of central pyramid with gabled wings coming off all four sides.

Also at about that time part of the hall had been enlarged to form a living room and small rear and side extensions were built.

[6] The layout of inside the plantation was a preliminary archaeological reconnaissance and assessment provided by Richard C. Beavers in August 1983.

The living room had a Victorian settee, with paneled walls, hard pine floors, and deep molded baseboards.

The land has been developed into residential and commercial enterprises, including Thibodaux Regional Hospital..

[8] The furniture and collections inside the plantation were a preliminary archaeological reconnaissance and assessment provided by Richard C. Beavers in August 1983.

Some of these items included corner chair called a roundabout, a set of Staffordshire dogs on the shelves in the library, two tables that flanked the front windows, a sofa with a spindle-back settee of the 1810 era, and a rocker called a comb-back Windsor constructed of pine.

A bow-front chest and desk, made of Hepplewhite from New England sat in the corner of the living room.

In the guest bedroom is a massive armoire and swan-neck cradle, a canopy bed made maple from the Sheraton style.

On the mantel sat blue vases which were gifts from Mrs. Price from her sister, Mary Susan Gay Butler.

The master bedroom in the corner nearby was a highboy chest that belonged to Plater ancestors of the 1700s.

On the left was antique clocks, below on the old pastry table and a child's toy wood-burning stove.