This expansive French Colonial style residence is a richly detailed tribute to true classic Creole design principles. Its architectural vocabulary would have been familiar to European colonists, compelled to adapt their Continental tastes to the sea-tropical Gulf Coast swampland three hundred years ago. The abundance of native materials like cypress inevitably added stylistic and practical variations to the neoclassical design precedents of eighteenth-century Europe. The endurance of this achitectural style is evidence of its suitability to the climate and style of life in the Deep South.