Belle Grove was a Greek Revival and Italianate plantation mansion near White Castle in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, built between 1852 and 1857 to a design by New Orleans architect Henry Howard. The completed house stood sixty-two feet high, measured 122 by 119 feet, and contained seventy-five rooms across four floors, making it one of the largest houses built in the antebellum South. It operated as a sugar plantation worked by more than 150 laborers. After decades of decline, the mansion was destroyed by fire on March 17, 1952, not long after being purchased for restoration.
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near White Castle in Iberville Parish, Louisiana
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was a plantation and elaborate Greek Revival and Italianate-style plantation mansion
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Completed in 1857, it was one of the largest mansions ever built in the Southern United States before burning down in 1952
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The masonry structure stood 62 feet (19 m) high and measured 122 feet (37 m) wide by 119 feet (36 m) deep
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Belle Grove, also known as Belle Grove Plantation, was a plantation and elaborate Greek Revival and Italianate-style plantation mansion near White Castle in Iberville Parish, Louisiana.
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The masonry structure stood 62 feet (19 m) high and measured 122 feet (37 m) wide by 119 feet (36 m) deep, with seventy-five rooms (including a jail cell) spread over four floors.
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