E of Napoleonville on LA 308, Napoleonville, Louisiana. County/parish: Assumption.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 30, 1973. NRIS 73000860.
3 contributing buildings. 2 contributing sites.Also known as:
Madewood Plantation House, also known as Madewood, is a former sugarcane plantation house on Bayou Lafourche, near Napoleonville, Louisiana. It is located approximately two miles east of Napoleonville on Louisiana Highway 308. A National Historic Landmark, the 1846 house is architecturally significant as the first major work of Henry Howard, and as one of the finest Greek Revival plantation houses in the American South.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/73972954