Riverlake
Riverlake is located in Louisiana
Riverlake
Riverlake is located in the United States
Riverlake
Nearest cityOscar, Louisiana
Coordinates30°36′28″N 91°26′07″W / 30.60764°N 91.43528°W / 30.60764; -91.43528
Builtc.1820, c.1840-45, c.1890
Architectural styleCreole
NRHP reference No.83000534[1]
Added to NRHPApril 13, 1983

Riverlake is a plantation and an antebellum mansion, located on the west bank of the False River in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, about 8 miles (13 km) south of New Roads, Louisiana.

The house is a raised Creole-style plantation house built and modified in c.1820, c.1840-45, and c.1890. The listing included two pigeonniers, believed to date from c.1820.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

The plantation is the birthplace of author Ernest Gaines, who played in its slave quarters area while a child.[3] Two of those slave cabins survive, out of 30 or more, and are separately listed on the National Register as the Cherie Quarters Cabins.

It is currently owned by the Calliet family.

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ↑ National Register Staff, Louisiana Division of Historic Preservation (January 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Riverlake". National Park Service. Retrieved March 26, 2019. With accompanying eight photos from 1982
  3. ↑ Carl, Rollyson (December 20, 2023). "As Yoknapatawpha Was to Faulkner, So Cherie Quarters Was to Ernest J. Gaines". The New York Sun. Retrieved January 6, 2024.


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