Rienzi Plantation House is a historic mansion located at 215 East Bayou Road in Thibodaux, Louisiana.

Rienzi plantation house is located directly across Bayou Lafourche from the town of Thibodaux.

Despite the proximity of a modern shopping center, the house enjoys a historic setting due to the large live oaks on the property.

[1][3][2] The house is significant both historically and architecturally and was built in the "American Style" with center hallways, exterior wall fireplaces with great emphasis placed on balance and symmetry.

However, Rienzi shows a transition from the early style with its primary floor being on the second level and the exposed rafters on the downstairs gallery.

are thought to pit-sawn and employ timber framing techniques, i.e. mortise and tenon joints with pegs.

He sold the property to Thomas Bibb, the second governor of Alabama, in 1835, and it is under his ownership that the plantation was first called Rienzi.

The next owner, Juan Ignacio de Egana, was probably the source of the romantic legend which has been widely publicized.

The legend has it that her agent, Juan Ygnacio de Egana, took possession of the home (after Louisiana was ceded to France and sold to the United States) and proceeded to live in the house for nearly fifty years.

However, the conveyance records indicate that Juan Ygnacio de Egana, whatever his connection with the Queen, owned the plantation in 1851 and his estate sold the property to Richard Allen in 1861.

When white vigilantes went on a shooting spree to end the strike, three victims of the massacre died on the plantation's grounds.