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Item Title
LocationState Highway 119,
Melrose, LA
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS LA-2-69-E
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N606).
Building/structure dates:
1810 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1996 subsequent work
0.1999
Significance: Melrose Creole Barn was constructed circa 1810 as a single room storage barn surrounded on four sides by a hipped roof gallery. Although the central room was floored on piers and beams, the gallery had an earth floor. In the mid-19th century the storage room was extended to include the end galleries. A major restoration in 1996 by John Robbins preserved its configuration; the flooring and gallery posts were replaced and the gallery floor bricked.
Subjects
AgricultureSlaveryBarns
Related Names
Coin-Coin, Marie Theresa
Metoyer, Claude Thomas Pierre.
Robbins, John
Brocato, Isabel, Delineator
Gingles, Marjorie, Delineator
Lesur, Rene, Delineator
McGuire, Joey, Delineator
Michel, Chad, Delineator
Boucher, Jack E., Photographer
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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