Pleasant View Plantation House | |
Location in Louisiana | |
Location | Louisiana Highway 1, Oscar, Louisiana |
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Coordinates | 30°36′51″N91°27′29″W / 30.61428°N 91.45804°W |
Area | 0.3 acres (0.12 ha) |
Built | c. 1820 |
Architectural style | Creole |
NRHP reference No. | 84001347 [1] |
Added to NRHP | April 5, 1984 |
Pleasant View Plantation House is located in Oscar, Louisiana. It was built around 1820 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 5, 1984.
It is Creole in style, one of 193 buildings in Pointe Coupee Parish identified in a study of older buildings. It is further, however, "one of a distinct group of eight large Creole plantation houses which, architecturally speaking, represent the apex of the Creole style in the parish. This can be seen in the following:
It is located in Oscar on the south side of Louisiana Highway 1, in from the south bank of False River. [2]
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