Cherie Quarters Cabins
Cherie Quarters Cabins | |
Nearest city | Oscar, Louisiana |
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Coordinates | 30°36′03″N 91°26′10″W / 30.60083°N 91.43611°W |
Area | 3 acres (1.2 ha) |
Built | c.1820 |
NRHP reference No. | 95000470[1] |
Added to NRHP | April 26, 1995 |
The Cherie Quarters Cabins were two single-story slave cabins which were the only two surviving of thirty or more original cabins on the River Lake (or Riverlake) plantation.[2] Wood-frame buildings supported by brick piers,[2] they were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.[1] A similar cabin was the childhood home of African-American novelist Ernest J. Gaines.[3]
They were located about 400 feet (120 m) apart on Major Lane, about .5 miles (0.80 km) from its intersection with Louisiana Highway 1, and about .4 miles (0.64 km) south of the main house of the plantation.[2]
Riverlake, the main plantation house, is a raised Creole-style built c.1820, which was listed on the National Register in 1983.[2][1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ a b c d National Register staff, Louisiana State Division of Historic Preservation (January 1995). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Cherie Quarters Cabins / River Lake Plantation Cabins". National Park Service. Retrieved January 6, 2024. With accompanying 15 photos from 1995
- ^ Carl, Rollyson (December 20, 2023). "As Yoknapatawpha Was to Faulkner, So Cherie Quarters Was to Ernest J. Gaines". The New York Sun. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
- National Register of Historic Places in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana
- Residential buildings completed in 1820
- Slave cabins and quarters in the United States
- 1820 establishments in Louisiana
- Residential buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana
- Homes of American writers
- Slavery in Louisiana
- Louisiana Registered Historic Place stubs