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81 Magnolia Ridge Plantation, also known as Prescott House, is located in St. Landry Parish, about ten miles north of Opelousas in the town of Washington. It was built for Judge John Moore (n.d.) in the popular Greek Revival style, with six Doric columns and a symmetrical distribution of windows and doors on the upper and lower stories. Brick exposed beneath the plaster, as seen in one of Tebbs’s photographs, shows how the columns were constructed. The house is located on North Prescott Street, though it is unclear if sugar planter Ben Prescott (1839–1914), his son Arthur Taylor Prescott (b. 1863), or other family members owned the property at some point. The house had fallen into disrepair by 1926. George Wallace and his wife, a descendant of the original owners, purchased and began restoring the property in 1939. Valery Mayers bought Magnolia Ridge in 1948. The property was listed with the National Register in 1980. In 2006, the plantation and its fifteen acres were offered for sale for $6.5 million and have not found a buyer as of this writing. MAGNOLIA RIDGE PLANTATION ca. 1830 Magnolia Ridge Plantation (rear galleries), vintage gelatin silver print, Louisiana State Museum, 1956.087.251 82 Calumet Plantation (general view of front elevation), gelatin silver print, Louisiana State Museum, 1956.087.338 ...

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