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[Belle Grove (White Castle, La.). Front elevation] – Historic Reproduction

[Belle Grove (White Castle, La.). Front elevation], [between 1935 and 1939] — historic drawing
[Belle Grove (White Castle, La.). Front elevation], [between 1935 and 1939]. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic drawing captures [Belle Grove (White Castle, La.). Front elevation] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Belle Grove (White Castle, La.). Front elevation]

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This watercolor shows the front elevation of Belle Grove, a plantation house in White Castle, Louisiana, rendered as a formal architectural view of its facade. Artists like Alvyk Boyd Cruise produced such renderings for the Historic American Buildings Survey, a federal program started in 1933 to record important American buildings during the Depression. The drawing was made between 1935 and 1939, though the catalog dates come from an unverified caption card. Its value lies in recording the house's proportions, columns, and detailing at a time when many Louisiana plantation houses were aging and at risk of loss.

Created / published[between 1935 and 1939]
Medium1 drawing : watercolor.
NotesWatercolor by Alvyk Boyd Cruise. Ref. copy may be in HABS LA, 24-Whica.V,1-. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Forms part of the Historic American Buildings Survey collection.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,181 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-156872

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