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ELEVATION VIEW OF MURAL "AFRICA HOUSE-MELROSE" BY CLEMENTINE HUNTER IN NORTHEAST CORNER, EAST WALL, WITH SCALE - Melrose Plantation, African House, State Highway 119, Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, LA
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ELEVATION VIEW OF MURAL "AFRICA HOUSE-MELROSE" BY CLEMENTINE HUNTER IN NORTHEAST CORNER, EAST WALL, WITH SCALE - Melrose Plantation, African House, State Highway 119, Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, LA
Description

The Melrose Plantation murals — painted by Clementine Hunter in 1955, inside the African House at Melrose Plantation.


  • Hunter, Clementine; Henry, Cammie G
Depicted place Louisiana; Natchitoches Parish; Melrose
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS LA,35-MELRO,1B-18
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Notes
  • Significance: A small structure with an interesting roof reminiscent of an African design; one of the earliest buildings built by blacks.
  • The building may originally have been used for utilitarian purposes.
  • Survey number: HABS LA-2-69-B
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1820 Initial Construction
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 72000556.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/la0212.photos.204865p
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Object location31° 35′ 55″ N, 92° 58′ 00.98″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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