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| Built in 1801, the original Creole Cottage burned. The Greek Revival structure in existence was designed by famous architect James Dakin and built in 1837. Bocage Plantation is steeped in history with ties to Christopher Columbus, early colonization, and the Louisiana Purchase. Well documented in many books and used as a Hollywood set, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Karen Kingsley, writes in her book, Buildings of Louisiana, "Certainly Ashland-Belle Helene and Bocage achieve an austere purity of form that places them among the best and, in the case of Bocage, the most original interpretations of American Greek Revival style in the nation." |
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