"They want to see the rooms intact and what they looked like when an older generation lived in them... The picture of life is important." - Weeks Hall Notebooks, ca. 1940

We welcome you to the online site of one of America's historic treasures! The Shadows-on-the-Teche is an antebellum historic house museum property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. We are dedicated to telling the story of life on a nineteenth-century southern Louisiana plantation--and we do so annually to over 25,000 people from around the world. We are located in the lush semi-tropical city of New Iberia, Louisiana, set among towering live oak trees, draped with Spanish moss swaying in the breeze off the Bayou Teche, bathed by the sunlight as it gently shines across the trees casting shadows on the house and the flowing muddy waters of the bayou.

A white-columned brick building constructed between 1831 and 1834 by sugar planter David Weeks and his wife, the Shadows is both a survivor and a reminder of another time. It is a tangible link to the past, representing over 150 years of history, stories about people and events, about life. Fortunately, not only do we have the house and historic site, but we also have a collection of over 17,000 paper documents testifying to the life of its former inhabitants, original photographs and furnishings. We, therefore, encourage and invite you to explore our site electronically and in person, in your search to better understand a picture of the life ...

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