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2 drawings
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12 b&w photos
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8 data pages
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2 photo caption pages
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2 color transparencies


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TITLE:
Planter's Cabin, 7815 Highland Road, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA

CALL NUMBER:
HABS LA,17-BATRO,9-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 2  (18 x 24 in.)
Photo(s): 12   (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 7 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 2
Color Transparencies: 2

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1933.

CREATOR:
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
Jandoli, Liz, transmitter

NOTE:
Survey number HABS LA-1135

Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-50).

Building/structure dates: 1800 initial construction

Building/structure dates: 1940 subsequent work

Significance: This building, known locally as the "planter's cabin," is one of the few surviving examples of an indigenous type of Louisiana architecture in the Parish of East Baton Rouge. With cypress and bousillage construction, a front gallery, and four rooms with a central fireplace, the structure has been altered only slightly through the years.

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

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.la0080

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
1. WEST (FRONT) FACADE
2. WEST AND SOUTH FACADES
3. EAST AND NORTH FACADES
4. DETAIL OF WEST PORCH LOOKING SOUTH
5. EAST PORCH
6. DETAIL OF DOOR AND WINDOW, WEST FACADE
7. DETAIL OF DOOR, WEST FACADE
8. SOUTH WALL OF NORTHWEST FOOM
9. DETAIL OF CROSSED MEMBERS, SOUTH WALL OF NORTHWEST ROOM
10. DETAIL OF WINDOW, WEST WALL OF NORTHWEST ROOM
11. DETAIL OF CONSTRUCTION, EAST WALL OF NORTHEAST ROOM
12. INTERIOR OF ATTIC LOOKING WEST
WEST (FRONT) FACADE
WEST AND SOUTH FACADES

CONTROL #:
LA0080

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