The Shadows-on-the-Teche

SEE BACK; V-NI-2; Standing grandly on the banks of Bayou Teche, the Shadows is one of Louisiana's most fabled houses. Built in 1830 by seven-foot-tall David Weeks, it was a part of the huge sugar empire of the Weeks family and the center of much of South Louisiana's gracious social life during a time when entertaining meant two-week houseparties, dancing on the lawn, gigantic barbecues and mint juleps on the verandah. Today the Shadows, with the bayou at its back door and the 0ld Spanish Trail (U.S. 90) at its front, it is maintained by the National Historical Society and is open to the public daily except Christmas Day.