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cow · 06-23-2009, 03:26 PM

I'm kind of surprised The Myrtles Plantation didn't make it (a plantation home close to Baton Rouge).

The Myrtles Plantation

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The Myrtles Plantation was built in 1796 by General David Bradford and called Laurel Grove.The house is a broad, low, rambling frame mansion with a clapboard exterior and was built in two halves. The first half, which was built in 1796, forms the western six bays of the main façade. These were increased in size due to mid-19th-century restoration, when the house also received a southward extension that almost doubled its size. The unusually long gallery is supported by an exceptional cast-iron railing of elaborate grape-cluster design. It is the interior detailing, however, which is perhaps the most important feature of the Myrtles Plantation. Most of the ground floor rooms have fine marble, arched mantles in the Rococo Revival style, with central console keystones or cartouches. Most of the rooms have plaster-ceiling medallions, no two of which are the same. All of the flooring and most of the windows in the house are original. The Myrtles Plantation is an outstanding example of the expanded raised cottage form that characterized many Louisiana plantation houses by the mid-19th century. The plantation house is known as one of the most haunted houses in America, as it was the scene of a Reconstruction-era murder and other more natural deaths that have entered into local folklore over the years. If you would like to read the entire story of the Myrtles Plantation CLICK HERE to be redirected to "The Ghosts of the Prairie" website, which entales the whole story.