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The Madewood Plantation House is located on the northern bank of Bayou Lafourche, on manicured grounds separated from the bayou by Highway 308.It is a two-story 15,000 sq ft (1,400 m 2) masonry, built with massive brick walls that have been finished with stucco scored to resemble stone blocks.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Louisiana that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register; or are otherwise significant for their history, their association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens (464 acres, 187.77 hectares) is a historic house with gardens located on the Ashley River at 3550 Ashley River Road west of Ashley, Charleston County, South Carolina. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is one of the oldest plantations in the South, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
By 1848, he designed the Madewood Plantation House near Napoleonville. [2] He went on to design several other plantation mansions , such as Nottoway (1859, the largest surviving plantation house in the South), Belle Alliance , Indian Camp Plantation (1859), Belmont Plantation in St. James Parish, and Edgewood (1859) in Natchez, Mississippi .
Madewood Plantation House: Madewood Plantation House: May 4, 1983 : Napoleonville: Assumption: Architect Henry Howard's first major building, begun in 1846. 26: Magnolia Plantation: Magnolia Plantation
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Magnolia Plantation is a former cotton plantation in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2001, significant as one of the most intact 19th-century plantation complexes in the nation, as it is complete with a suite of slave cabins and numerous outbuildings and period technology.