African American Life

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Representing. . .

Brame-Bennett House
East Feliciana Parish

Doric Capitals
Unfluted Columns

Madewood
Assumption Parish

Ionic Capitals
Fluted Columns

Crops grown

cotton

Crops grown 

sugar cane

Bayouside
McNutt Historic District
Rapides Parish

Example: Typical one to one-and-one-half story cottage

Trinity Plantation
Iberville Parish

Example: Typical one to one-and-one-half story cottage
Entablature

Mouton House
St. Landry Parish

Corinthian Capital
Fluted Column

Taylor House
East Feliciana Parish

Boxed Columns

Inglewood
Rapides Parish

Privy Interior

Houmas House
Ascension Parish

Example: Peripteral Mode Plantation Stereotype

Ashland/Belle Helene
Ascension Parish

Example: Peripteral Mode Plantation Stereotype

Piazza Cotton Gin
Concordia Parish

Cotton Gin Stand (this machine actually gins the cotton)

Inglewood
Rapides Parish

Privy

Piazza Cotton Gin
Concordia Parish

Cotton gin

Oakland
Natchitoches Parish

Group of Outbuildings

Whitney Store
St. John the Baptist Parish

Post War Plantation Store

Bennett Store
Rapides Parish

Post War Plantation Store

Magnolia
Natchitoches Parish

Overseer's House

Inglewood
Rapides Parish

Cotton House

McNutt Historic District
Rapides Parish

Barn

Ashland/Belle Helene
Ascension Parish

Monumental Entrance

Fairview Plantation House
East Feliciana Parish

Kitchen

Laurel Valley Plantation
Lafourche Parish

Sugar Mill Ruins

Magnolia Cabins
Natchitoches Parish

Slave Cabin

Magnolia Cabins
Natchitoches Parish

Group of Slave Cabins

Rosedown
West Feliciana Parish

Example: Plantation mansion stereotype

Rosedown
West Feliciana Parish

Elaborately furnished plantation house

Rosedown
West Feliciana Parish

Elaborately furnished plantation house

Mulberry Grove
Ascension Parish

Monumental Entrance
Transom and Sidelights
Shoulder Molding

Oak Grove
West Feliciana Parish

Carriage House

Weyanoke
West Feliciana Parish

Example: Plantation mansion stereotype
Stacked columns on front
Entablature
Square headed openings

Spell House
DeSoto Parish

One-story temple front house
Entablature
Square headed openings
Six-over-six windows
Small House
Simple House

Madewood
Assumption Parish

Example: Plantation mansion stereotype
Two-story temple front house
Symmetrical
Large House
Luxurious House

Bocage
Ascension Parish

Example: Plantation mansion stereotype
Colossal columns on front
Symmetrical
Luxurious House

Bittersweet
St. Mary Parish

Two-story temple front house

Belle Alliance
Assumption Parish

Greek Revival mantel

Sandbar Plantation House
West Baton Rouge Parish

Greek Revival mantel

Holly Grove
East Feliciana Parish

Ceiling Medallion

Holly Grove
East Feliciana Parish

Cornice as wall/ceiling decoration

Cinclair Sugar Mill
Historic District
West Baton Rouge Parish

Wash House

Evergreen
St. John the Baptist Parish

Slave row

Magnolia
Natchitoches Parish

Cotton Press

Cinclair Sugar Mill
Historic District
West Baton Rouge Parish

Mule Barn

Magnolia Mound
East Baton Rouge Parish

Sparsely Furnished Room in Plantation House


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