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

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

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Summary

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.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-50
Survey number: HABS LA-1135
Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: after 1940 Subsequent Work

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Date

1940 - 1945
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Jandoli, Liz, transmitter
place

Location

Baton Rouge (La.)30.37455, -91.13464
Google Map of 30.374549, -91.134635
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Source

Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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