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Heart of Louisiana: Melrose The API failed to deliver the resource. Melrose Plantation is a national historic landmark, as well as an artist colony that inspired a well-known Louisiana folk artist.
Melrose Plantation is a nearly 200-year-old National Historic Landmark located on Cane River Lake in central Louisiana that was home to folk artist Clementine Hunter.
Fans will remember the plantation was once home to Artist Clementine Hunter, whose works are in the Smithsonian, her home installed on the Melrose grounds, though not part of the restoration.
Melrose Quilt depicts buildings at the Melrose plantation in Natchitoches Parish, in Central Louisiana, where Hunter and her family moved to work as sharecroppers. She represents the Big House in the ...
Cammie Henry came from a wealthy family and was a longtime owner of the historic Melrose Plantation in Central, Louisiana. Throughout her life in Melrose, she was an avid scrapbooker. “These are ...
She eventually became the cook for Melrose Plantation, where, it's said, New Orleans painter Alberta Kinsey gave Hunter some discarded tubes of paint.
MELROSE, La. - In honor of Black History Month, Rick Rowe visited the historic Melrose Plantation in southern Natchitoches Parish.
A century ago, Cammie Henry -- the widowed owner of Louisiana’s Melrose Plantation -- created a retreat for famous Southern writers and artists. And she preserved everything that was important ...
The first phase of a $180,000 restoration of the African House at Melrose Plantation is underway through partnerships providing expertise and hard-to-find tools.