St. Maurice Plantation | |
Formerly listed on the
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
Location | Off LA 477, St. Maurice, Louisiana |
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Coordinates | 31°45′22″N 92°57′54″W / 31.75611°N 92.96500°W |
Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
Built | 1845 |
Architectural style | Greek Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 79001104 [1] |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | April 3, 1979 |
Removed from NRHP | January 31, 2019 |
St. Maurice Plantation was a historic mansion on a plantation off the banks of the Red River of the South in Winn Parish, Louisiana, USA. [2]
The house was built for the Prothro family, [3] and it was completed in 1845. [4] It was designed in the Greek Revival architectural style. [4] By 1850, members of the Prothro family and their African slaves died of the yellow fever. [3] A decade later, during the American Civil War of 1861–1865, the plantation was taken over by the Union Army. [3]
It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 3, 1979. [4] It was destroyed by fire on June 5, 1981. [5] It was removed from the National Register in January 2019.