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LISTINGS
Butler Greenwood Plantation |
8345 US Highway 61
St. Francisville
Louisiana
70775
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Contact Person: Anne Butler
Phone: 225.635.6312
Fax: 225.635.6312
A typical early raised, rambling English cottage-style home, Butler Greenwood is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Filled with priceless antiques throughout, it boasts the area's finest original formal Victorian parlor, with a 12-piece set of carved rosewood furniture still in the original scarlet upholstery, matching lambrequins at the windows and rare calla-lily drapery tiebacks holding back the lace curtains, floral Brussels carpet, marble mantel and a number of oil portraits of family members (the children in the house now are the 8th generation). Surrounding the home are some fifty acres of landscaped grounds shaded by hundreds of ancient live oaks draped with Spanish moss and planted from acorns in the 1790s. The boxwood parterres of the antebellum formal gardens and the sunken gardens along the entrance drive are filled with ancient camellias and azaleas of staggering size, as well as sweet olive, magnolia fuscata and other 19th-century plantings. Like all early gardens, this one was so thoughtfully planned that there is nearly always something blooming, nearly always a nice fragrance in the air. Cast-iron urns and benches date from the 1850s, as does the charming Victorian summer house, which has recently been restored. Surrounded by hundreds of acres of unspoiled woodlands, Butler Greenwood has a huge population of birds and wildlife, including herons on the pond, white-tailed deer, fox, bobcats, and chipmunks.
Latitude: 30.82004
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