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105 The Brame House, also known as the Brame-Bennett House, is located in Clinton in East Feliciana Parish. Dana D. Davis (d. 1843), a physician from Amite County, Mississippi , and his wife, Lavinia (née Bartlett; b. 1818), purchased two lots on April 8, 1839, for $1,000.02 and began building the house. The one-and-a-half-story house is constructed of brick covered with stucco in the Greek Revival style. The portico features plastered-brick Doric columns, a large fanlight, a pediment decorated with triglyph frieze, and an entablature. Tebbs also photographed the unusual, slightly Gothic cedar window shades on the upper floor. The ground floor consists of a wide hall with two rooms on each side, and the upper floor holds three bedrooms. The house was almost certainly finished by 1842, when the property passed to William Langfitt (n.d.). The house changed hands many times before Judge Franklin Drake Brame (1846– 1894) and his second wife, Martha Belle Overton (1861–1923), bought it on December 28, 1886. Brame had been a member of Scott’s Cavalry during the Civil War and was elected judge for the Sixteenth District shortly after moving to the house. On July 26, 1895, the Brames transferred ownership of the property to the judge’s daughters , Leticia Irwin Brame (1875–1941), who married William Hays Bennett (1875–1939), and Cora Ellen Brame, wife of Ben Delegarza. Leticia and her husband occupied the house and purchased Cora’s share three years later. William T. Bennett bought the property from the Bennetts ’ daughters, Mary Irwin Bennett and Jeanne Marie Elissalde, on August 14, 1947. The Brame-Bennett House was placed on the National Historic Register in 1973. It remains a private residence. BRAME HOUSE 1839–1842 Brame House (detail of cedar window shades), gelatin silver print, Louisiana State Museum, 1956.087.086b 106 Rienzi Plantation (three-quarter elevation from the front), vintage gelatin silver print, Louisiana State Museum, 1956.087.181b ...

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