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91 Wakefield Plantation is located in West Feliciana Parish near St. Francisville. It was built in 1833 by Joseph R. Miller (n.d.) for Lewis Sterling (1786–1858). Although essentially indigenous Creole in style, Wakefield has many Greek Revival elements, such as the ill-proportioned and poorly detailed Doric columns and geometric black marble mantels in the parlor. Its name was taken from The Vicar of Wake- field, a novel by Oliver Goldsmith published in 1766. After Sterling’s wife died in the 1870s, the main house was cut down from two-and-a-half to one-and-a-half stories, and the plantation was subdivided into three sections. Only one section remained by the time Helene Allain owned the house in 1939. Dr. Gene and Joanna Berry are the current owners. Tebbs’s interior view recalls his earlier work for architectural journals. WAKEFIELD PLANTATION 1833/1835 Wakefield Plantation (interior), gelatin silver print, Louisiana State Museum, 1956.087.011a 92 Rosedown Plantation (end view), vintage gelatin silver print, Louisiana State Museum, 1956.087.072b ...

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