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The Godchaux–Reserve Plantation house is a colombage (or timber framed) raised building, designed in the French Creole and Federal architecture styles. [3] The core structure of the house is thought to be built in 1764 by Jean Baptiste and Marie Therese Laubel and was simply a two wooden rooms with a fireplace.
The Godchaux–Reserve Plantation was built by Leon Godchaux, and the oldest portion of the plantation home dates to 1764, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). [1] [2] In the early 20th century, the plantation at Reserve had the largest sugarcane refinery in the United States, named Godchaux Sugar Refinery. [3]
Leon Godchaux (June 10, 1824 – May 18, 1899) [1] [2] was a French-born American businessman, planter, sugar plantation owner and the founder of the Leon Godchaux Clothing Co. department store and Godchaux Sugars Inc..
Sister plantation to St. Joseph Plantation, built circa 1850 and privately owned. 80001712 Frogmore Plantation: May 31, 1980: Ferriday: Concordia: Established circa 1815, Frogmore Plantation has a steam-powered cotton gin. 82004674 Frozard Plantation House: August 12, 1982: Grand Coteau St. Landry 93001548 Godchaux–Reserve Plantation: January ...
September 25, 1991 (Louisiana Highway 18 southeast of Fiftymile Pt.: Wallace: Composed of 37 buildings, including a main house and 22 extant slave cabins, Evergreen Plantation is an intact example of major plantation complexes found during the antebellum era of the Southern United States. [6]
Blake married Ryan Reynolds in 2012 at Boone Hall, a former slave plantation in South Carolina. In a 2020 interview with Fast Company , the Deadpool actor apologized for the couple’s choice of ...
Nearly a decade after controversial reality show Gigolos went off the air, a new docuseries is set to cover the violent death of a woman at the hands of one of the show's former stars.. Gigolos ...
The earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it was completed.