Coincoin-Prudhomme House, On dirt road off of Highway 494, about 1 mile Nort, Natchez, Natchitoches Parish, LA

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Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey

7 drawings
6 b&w photos
16 data pages
1 photo caption pages

TITLE:
Coincoin-Prudhomme House, On dirt road off of Highway 494, about 1 mile Nort, Natchez, Natchitoches Parish, LA

CALL NUMBER:
HABS LA-1295

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 7 (24 x 36 in.)
Photo(s): 6 (5 x 7)
Data Page(s): 15 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1933.

CREATOR:
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HABS LA-1295

Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N796).

Building/structure dates: 1794 initial construction

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 19791206

Significance: The Coincoin-Prudhomme House is a rare surviving example of a basic Norman-plan Creole plantation house. Furthermore, it is one of very few extant Louisiana plantation houses from the middle-antebellum era that incorporated the Norman French-style roof truss system used by the French on their government, ecclesiastical, and military buildings in the early eighteenth century. The structure also has been traditionally associated with the Creole community in and around Natchitoches, particularly with Marie Therese Coincoin, and it has been thought of as her dwelling.

SUBJECTS:
LOUISIANA--Natchitoches Parish--Natchez
building deterioration
economic & social conditions
ethnic groups

OTHER TITLE:
Maison de Marie Therese
Cane River National Heritage Area Commission

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.la0417

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. View from across the Cane River to the northwest side of the house
2. General view looking from the north
3. General view looking from the west
4. General view of north gallery looking from the north
5. North gallery
6. View on southwest end looking from the west

CONTROL #:
LA0417

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