Melrose Plantation, Creole Barn, State Highway 119, Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, LA

1999 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place

Significance: Melrose Creole Barn was constructed circa 1810 as a single room storage barn surrounded on four sides by a hipped roof gallery. Although the central room was floored on piers and beams, the gallery had an earth floor. In the mid-19th century the storage room was extended to include the end galleries. A major restoration in 1996 by John Robbins preserved its configuration; the flooring and gallery posts were replaced and the gallery floor bricked.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N606

Survey number: HABS LA-2-69-E

Building/structure dates: ca. 1810 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1996 Subsequent Work

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