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73 Originally from Nashville, Charles H. Dickinson (ca. 1803–1848), together with his wife, Anna M. Turner (ca. 1812–1886), built a four-room main house on his property near Bayou Grosse Tete in Iberville Parish beginning in 1828. Live Oak Plantation was constructed in at least two phases. About 1835, Dickinson merged the first building with the present two-and-one-half story, eight-room house. The work was completed by 1838. Although Greek Revival structures dominated along the River Road in the 1830s, Live Oak reflects the Louisiana Creole style, with slender square pillars supporting the galleries at each level, large windows that extend to the floor, and almost no exterior ornamentation. The walls of the first floor are briquette entre poteaux and clapboard over a massive cypress colombage framework. The most striking feature of the house—which Tebbs emphasized in his photograph—is the twenty-four-foot hallway leading to a gracefully curved stairway. The stairway appears to float up from the ground, with the supports camouflaged by a series of four-by-four-inch beams fit into mortise-and-tenon joints in the wall. A brick chapel built for slaves on the grounds about 1840 is the only such structure to have survived on a plantation in Louisiana. Dickinson inherited the property from his guardian, Captain Joseph Irwin, in 1828. Twenty-three years earlier, Andrew Jackson had killed Dickinson’s father in a duel after the two men disagreed over the result of a horse race and Jackson learned that the elder Dickinson had called Jackson’s wife, Rachel, a bigamist. Only one photograph from Live Oak Plantation—the interior shot reproduced here—is accessioned in the Louisiana State Museum’s Tebbs Collection. This photograph, together with that of the staircase at Ellerslie, is among his most striking images. Live Oak is currently a private residence. LIVE OAK (OR LIVE OAKS) PLANTATION ca. 1828/1838 74 Hurst-Stauffer House (side elevation), gelatin silver print, Louisiana State Museum, 1956.087.342 ...

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