Parlange Plantation
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Parlange Plantation House
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Parlange Plantation House, 1936 HABS photo
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| Nearest city | Mix, Louisiana |
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| Coordinates | 30°37′49″N 91°29′15″W / 30.63036°N 91.48763°WCoordinates: 30°37′49″N 91°29′15″W / 30.63036°N 91.48763°W |
| Built | c. 1750 |
| Architectural style | French Colonial |
| NRHP Reference # | 70000258 |
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| Added to NRHP | April 15, 1970 |
| Designated NHL | May 30, 1974 |
The Parlange Plantation House is a historic plantation house at Louisiana Highway 1 and Louisiana Highway 78 in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Built in 1750, it is a classic example of a large French Colonial plantation house in the United States. Exemplifying the style of the semi-tropical Louisiana river country house, the Parlange Plantation home is a two-story raised cottage. The main floor is set on a brick basement with brick pillars to support the veranda of the second story. The raised basement is of brick, manufactured by slaves on the plantation. The walls, both inside and out, were plastered with a native mixture of mud, sand, Spanish moss and animal hair (bousillage), then painted. The ground story and second floors contain seven service rooms, arranged in a double line. The walls and ceiling throughout the house were constructed of close-fitting bald cypress planks.
There is an octagonal pigeonnier near the house. The home was once surrounded by a formal garden, but the garden was destroyed during the Civil War.
Vincent de Ternant, known as the Marquis of Dansville-sur-Meuse, received the plantation grounds in a French land grant and developed the 10,000 acres (40 km²) into an active plantation facing False River. When de Ternant's son Claude inherited the plantation, he changed the cash crop from indigo to sugarcane and cotton.
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