Moro Plantation House
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Moro Plantation House | |
Nearest city | Waterproof, Louisiana |
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Coordinates | 31°48′54″N 91°25′55″W / 31.81500°N 91.43194°W |
Area | 0.2 acres (0.081 ha) |
Built | c.1839 |
Architect | Murchison, Jane; Buck, Theophilus |
Architectural style | Greek Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 82000468[1] |
Added to NRHP | October 5, 1982 |
Moro Plantation House is located in Tensas Parish, Louisiana. It is just north of Louisiana Highway 566, three miles west of U.S. 65 & three and one half miles west of Waterproof, Louisiana. It was built in about 1839 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]
It is a two-story Greek Revival plantation house in delta farmland facing Muddy Bayou near the Mississippi River. It was built as a central hall plan with brick on the ground floor and frame construction on the upper story. It has "outstanding interior woodwork", the finest in the parish, in its four upper story main rooms.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "Moro Plantation House" (PDF). State of Louisiana's Division of Historic Preservation. 1982. Retrieved June 23, 2017. with photo and two maps
Categories:
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana
- Houses completed in 1839
- Houses in Tensas Parish, Louisiana
- National Register of Historic Places in Tensas Parish, Louisiana
- Plantation houses in Louisiana
- 1839 establishments in Louisiana
- Greek Revival houses in Louisiana
- Central-passage houses
- Louisiana Registered Historic Place stubs