Layton Castle

Henry Bry built a raised cottage here around 1814. In 1910, Eugenia Stubbs Layton encased the original structure in brick and added a tower, transforming sixty rooms into one of seven castles in Louisiana. The Romanesque Revival details—gallery, brick facade, tower—make this a European-inspired outlier in delta country. It's privately owned but open for tours and events, which means you can walk through a building that has spent two centuries refusing to look like anything else around it.