White Hall Plantation House is an 1840s mansion in Legonier, now part of Lettsworth, Louisiana, on the east bank of the Atchafalaya River. Built in 1848 and 1849 and attributed to the architect Henry Howard, the house combines Italianate and Greek Revival elements. It was the residence of Bennet Barton Simmes, who founded the town of Simmesport and helped draft Louisianas Articles of Secession before the Civil War, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 26, 1977.
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White Hall Plantation House is an 1840s Italianate and Greek Revival plantation house attributed to the architect Henry Howard and built in 1848-49 by Elias Norwood.
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