Edwin Epps House

Edwin Epps House is a Creole cottage built in 1852 (173 years ago) (1852) in part by Solomon Northup[1] on Bayou Boeuf near Holmesville in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana.

[3] The Edwin Epps Plantation Site, where the house originally stood, is located off of LA 1176 on Carl Hunt Road.

[6] In 1999, the house was dismantled, during which some original building materials were replaced, and reconstructed on the Louisiana State University of Alexandria.

[7] The relocation, among modern buildings, "destroys the integrity of location and setting, and can create a false sense of historic development."

[1][6] The house was moved to the university to be used as a museum to help tell the story of plantation life, including the inhumanity and lack of freedom of the enslaved people.

Restored Epps plantation house. Now located on the Louisiana State University of Alexandria campus ( 31°10′31″N 92°24′53″W  /  31.17528°N 92.41472°W  / 31.17528; -92.41472 )
Edwin Epps House, now located on the ground of Louisiana State University of Alexandria , is a stop along Northup's Trail. Solomon Northup and Samuel Bass helped build the house that was completed in 1852.