White Hall Plantation House is an 1840s Italinate

Italianate architecture

The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. In the Italianate style, the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian Renaissance architecture, which had served as inspiration for both Palladianism and...

 and Greek Revival

Greek Revival architecture

The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States. A product of Hellenism, it may be looked upon as the last phase in the development of Neoclassical architecture...

 home attributed to the architect Henry Howard and built in 1848–49 by Elias Norwood. It is located in Legonier, a hamlet on the east bank of the Atchafalaya River

Atchafalaya River

The Atchafalaya River is a distributary of the Mississippi River and Red River in south central Louisiana in the United States. It flows south, just west of the Mississippi River....

, and a part of the unincorporated town of Lettsworth, Louisiana

Lettsworth, Louisiana

Lettsworth is a small village located in the extreme northern tip of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, in the United States. It lies on the east bank of the Atchafalaya River near its intersection with the Mississippi River and the Red River at the Old River Control Structure. As of 2005, the...

 today. White Hall's most notable owner was Bennet Barton Simmes, founder of Simmesport, State Senator, and contributor to the Louisiana articles of succession prior to the Civil War. The home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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