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Description of Photograph
This is an 8x12 inch Reproduction Photograph made from a high quality scan of the original. When evaluating the quality of the photo, please keep in mind that most photos in our collection were taken over 100 years ago.
Title: Melrose Plantation, African House, State Highway 119, Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, LA
Creator(s): Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Related Names:
Hunter, Clementine
Henry, Cammie G
Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1933
Color Transparencies: 11
Measured Drawing(s): 3
Data Page(s): 9
Photo Caption Page(s): 6
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
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72000556
Subjects:
outbuildings
Ethnic groups
African Americans
building deterioration
Houses
hip roofs
Place:
Louisiana -- Natchitoches Parish -- Melrose
Latitude/Longitude: 31.59861, -92.96694
Bookmark /la0212/ 8x12 inches.
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Source: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
