Rosalie Plantation, Sugarhouse, Chambers, Rapides Parish, LA

1992 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry
Significance: Site: Land purchased 1825-1830. Original owner: Gervais Baillio. Plantation house built approx. 1830, sugar first shipped on Bayou Robert, 1845. Building: Single space, one level brick construction with wood trusses, covered with tin roofing. North & south walls with stepped parapets suggests 1850, or post-Civil War, 1870. Both south & north parapets different stepping. Grinding of cane was supposed to be an outdoors (possibly covered) process - all other sugar processes occur inside Rosalie. Rosalie is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Present owners: Tom & Hope Norman, Alexandria, Louisiana.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-137
Survey number: HABS LA-1232-A
Building/structure dates: ca. 1850 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 76000974