Magnolia Mound, 2161 Nicholson Drive, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA

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19 drawings
16 b&w photos
17 data pages
3 photo caption pages
3 color transparencies Supplemental Material

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TITLE:
Magnolia Mound, 2161 Nicholson Drive, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA

CALL NUMBER:
HABS LA,17-BATRO,14-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 19 (24 x 36 in.)
Photo(s): 16 (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 16 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 3
Color Transparencies: 3

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1933.

CREATOR:
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HABS LA-1130

Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-120).

Building/structure dates: 1790 initial construction

Building/structure dates: 1820 subsequent work

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72000549

0.1989

Significance: Magnolia Mound is one of the few extant examples of a late eighteenth century settler's house and one of the earliest surviving structures in the Baton Rouge vicinity. Built in the late 1790s on a ridge overlooking the Mississippi River, the original four-room plantation house is significant for its early cypress and bousillage construction. Circa 1815-1820, Magnolia Mound was enlarged and embellished in the Classical style. The plantation house possesses notable interior decoration including one of the first cove ceilings in the Mississippi Valley. Saved from the wrecker's ball in 1967, it has been restored as a historic house museum by the Foundation for Historical Louisiana, Inc. With the successive owners providing an illuminating social and economic history, this well documented and architecturally important plantation house was listed in the National Register of Historic Place in 1972.

SUBJECTS:
LOUISIANA--East Baton Rouge Parish--Baton Rouge

OTHER TITLE:
Barthel Plantation

COLLECTION:
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.la0075

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. WEST (FRONT) ELEVATION
2. WEST FACADE FROM NORTHWEST
3. WEST AND SOUTH FACADES
4. EAST FACADE
5. EAST AND NORTH FACADES
6. DETAIL, WEST FACADE PORCH LOOKING SOUTH
7. DETAIL, WEST FACADE PORCH LOOKING SOUTH FROM CENTER
8. DETAIL, WEST FACADE DOORWAY
9. DETAIL, EAST FACADE PORCH LOOKING SOUTH
10. SOUTHWEST CORNER OF PARLOR
11. DETAIL, PARLOR MANTEL
12. NORTH WALL OF DINING ROOM
13. STAIRHALL LOOKING NORTH
14. DETAIL OF SOUTH BEDROOM MANTEL
15. DETAIL OF EXPOSED BOUSILLAGE CONSTRUCTION, NORTH BEDROOM
16. DETAIL OF ROOF CONSTRUCTION IN ATTIC
WEST FACADE FROM NORTHWEST
WEST AND SOUTH FACADES
DETAIL, WEST FACADE PORCH LOOKING SOUTH

CONTROL #:
LA0075

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