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Pleasant View Plantation House

Coordinates: 30°36′51″N 91°27′29″W / 30.61428°N 91.45804°W / 30.61428; -91.45804
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Pleasant View Plantation House
Pleasant View Plantation House is located in Louisiana
Pleasant View Plantation House
Location in Louisiana
Pleasant View Plantation House is located in the United States
Pleasant View Plantation House
Location in United States
LocationLouisiana Highway 1,
Oscar, Louisiana
Coordinates30°36′51″N 91°27′29″W / 30.61428°N 91.45804°W / 30.61428; -91.45804
Area0.3 acres (0.12 ha)
Builtc. 1820
Architectural styleCreole
NRHP reference No.84001347[1]
Added to NRHPApril 5, 1984

Pleasant View Plantation House is located in Oscar, Louisiana. It was built around 1820 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 5, 1984.

It is Creole in style, one of 193 buildings in Pointe Coupee Parish identified in a study of older buildings. It is further, however, "one of a distinct group of eight large Creole plantation houses which, architecturally speaking, represent the apex of the Creole style in the parish. This can be seen in the following:

  1. Pleasant View is a full two stories high, unlike the normal one story Creole cottages found in the parish,
  2. It features brick between posts construction, (The vast majority of the parish's Creole houses have plain frame walls with no infill.)
  3. It features pre-Greek Revival details such as turned gallery columns and Adamesque mantels. These details which are associated with the Creole style do not occur often In the parish. Most of the so-called "Creole" buildings of Pointe Coupee Parish are Creole in plan and configuration only. Typically they feature Greek Revival, Victorian, or bungalow details."[2]

It is located in Oscar on the south side of Louisiana Highway 1, in from the south bank of False River.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ^ a b National Register Staff, Louisiana Division of Historic Preservation. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Pleasant View Plantation House". National Park Service. Archived from the original on August 15, 2023. Retrieved March 23, 2021. With accompanying nine photos from 1983