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Natchitoches,LA 71457
Key Details
Property Type Single Family Home
Sub Type Detached
Listing Status Active
Purchase Type For Sale
Square Footage 2,801 sqft
Price per Sqft $428
MLS Listing ID 2488926
Style Cottage,Creole
Bedrooms 4
Full Baths 3
Year Built 1839
Lot Size 8.290 Acres
Property Sub-Type Detached
Property Description
Here is your chance to own a unique piece of history. Offered fully furnished, Cherokee Plantation is an excellent example of a Creole Cottage, at traditional building type indigenous to Louisiana. The tall, single-story house was raised on brick piers, approximately six feet above grade. The floors, walls, and the massive hipped roof were built of traditional heavy timber construction, using hand-hewn cypress. The walls of the four original central rooms were filled between the studs, posts and braces with bousillage, a mixture of mud and moss, Interior walls were painted, and exterior walls sheathed in weatherboards.
Cherokee was a part of a Spanish land grant issued to Philippe Frederique and Jacques Faure in 1795. The house dates back to some years before 1839 when Emile Sompayrac purchased teh plantation from his father-in-law Narcisse Prud'homme and altered the house for his wife Clarisse. In that same year, the famous Bossier-Gaiennie dual was fought at the rear of the plantation. Sometime after the purchase, the plantation became known as Cherokee because of the plush hedges of Cherokee roses at the entryway.
After Emile's death in 1878, parcels of the property were sold, and in 1891 the remainder was bought by Robert Calvert Murphy, The Murphy family retained ownership of Cherokee until 2024.
Built of "bousillage" (mud with moss and deer hair), the raised-type of construction has the original size fireplaces, tall folding doors of "faux bois" (the grain painted on the wood). Doors of this type are used throughout the house. All the wide-board floors are original as are the windows and doors with panes of hand-blown glass, and a large number of locks and pieces of hardware. There are porches on three sides of the house. Eighteen columns of hand-hewn cypress extend from porch level to the eaves. The entire skeletal structure of the building, the massive sills, the floor beams, the ceiling beams and the studding are hand-hewn cypress.
Location
State LA
County Natchitoches
Interior
Heating Central
Cooling Central Air
Fireplaces Type Wood Burning
Laundry Washer Hookup,Dryer Hookup
Exterior
Exterior Feature Fence,Porch,Permeable Paving
Parking Features None,Driveway
Pool None
Roof Type Shingle,Wood
Building
Lot Description 6-10 Units/Acre,Outside City Limits
Foundation Raised
Sewer Septic Tank
Water Public
Others
Special Listing Condition None