Architecture
Ashland-Belle Helene Plantation
Perhaps more than any other plantation house, Ashland-Belle Helene epitomizes the popular image of the grand Greek Revival southern mansion.
Perhaps more than any other plantation house, Ashland-Belle Helene epitomizes the popular image of the grand Greek Revival southern mansion.
Although Bocage's early history is hazy, local tradition has maintained that the house was built in 1801 by Emanuel Marius Pons Bringier as a wedding gift for his fourteen-year-old daughter, Françoise.
Gallier Hall is considered one of the masterpieces of Greek Revival style in the South.
The massive Greek Revival plantation house is a modern replica of the original structure at Greenwood which burned to the ground in 1960.
Greek Revival Madewood Plantation was one of Henry Howard's first commissions and helped launch his successful architectural practice.
St. Emma Plantation was the site of a Civil War skirmish known as the Battle of Kock's Plantation.
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