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- Magnolia Plantation, Louisiana Route 119, Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, LA
Title
- Magnolia Plantation, Louisiana Route 119, Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, LA
Description
Lecompte, Ambrose; Hertzog, Matthew; Hertzog, Elizabeth; Cane River Creole National Historical Park; Atwell, Felicia, field team; Carnahan, Brian, field team; Sanders, Andrew, field team; Tulejova, Oxana, field team; Cane River National Heritage Area Commission, sponsor; Morgan, Nancy I, M, sponsor; Price, Virginia Barrett, transmitter; Tulane University, School of Architecture, sponsor; Cizek, Eugene D, faculty sponsor; Bremholm, Tony, historian; Boucher, Jack E, photographer
Depicted place Louisiana; Natchitoches Parish; Natchitoches
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-NATCH.V,2-7
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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Notes
  • 1988 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention
  • Significance: Lands within Magnolia Plantation have been owned and cultivated by the same family since the French land grants of 1753. Magnolia remains one of the South's most complete plantation complexes, with buildings and landscape features spanning its entire 250-year history. Noteworthy are the oak alley, a nationally significant cotton press, the brick slave quarters later used for tenant housing, a slave hospital, a blacksmith shop, the plantation store, and the big house with private chapel.

Planter Matthew Hertzog built the plantation's "big house" in the 1890s on the foundation of a dwelling burned during the Civil War. The previous house was a regionally distinctive, raised Creole cottage dating to the 1840s, up to 1851; it had a two-story brick basement, raised galleries on the front and back, and ringed by over twenty 18' brick Tuscan columns. The present big house is a late nineteenth-century interpretation of the raised Creole cottage traditionally built in the Cane River area, adapted to modern materials, technologies, and tastes. As one of the largest plantation homes in the area, Magnolia's big house reflects the wealth, status, and endurance of the Hertzog family at the end of one of the most turbulent periods in Louisiana history. The house tells much about the history of planter society, agriculture, and the rural South since the colonial era.

  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-105
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N795
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N921
  • Survey number: HABS LA-1193
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1864 Demolished
  • Building/structure dates: 1898 Subsequent Work
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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 79001071.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/la0241.photos.204766p
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