Desobry Building - Plaquemine, LA
N 30° 17.050 W 091° 14.550
15R E 669034 N 3351581
Nice Greek Revival commercial/residential building in downtown Plaquemine, LA.
Waymark Code: WM57TH
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 11/24/2008
Views: 10
Abandoned building. The yard was cut, but the building was boarded up and graffiti was on alot of the building. Easy to locate and photograph. People looked, but most waved. The entire property was fenced in. I found no information except from the register application I located
here .
The Desobry Building (c,1850) is a single story brick Greek Revival commercial building
located near downtown Plaquemine.
The Desobry Building consists of a large commercial space in front and living quarters to
the rear. Apparently the commercial space was once a single large room, but over the years it has
been subdivided into three rooms. The space is largely characterless with plain board walls and
simple openings. The only Greek Revival interior features are the three shoulder molded front
doorways. The subdividing partitions are of vertical planks and have a temporary look despite the
fact that some of them are fairly old.
Behind the commercial area is the living space, which consists of a central hall and two
rooms. Each of the rooms has a fireplace with a shoulder molded mantel. The window frames and
doorways are also shoulder molded. The doors consist of four flat panels with bolection moldings.
The exterior features segmentally arched openings and a symmetrical front which culminates in a
pediment shaped gable parapet. Whether or not the pediment shape was actually conceived of as a
reference to a pediment is not known.