Orange Grove Plantation House (Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana)

Benjamin Morgan, originally from Philadelphia and of a prominent American Revolutionary War family, purchased the land in 1804.

[1] Between 1847 and 1853, Thomas A. Morgan commissioned the noted Philadelphia architect William L. Johnston to design the plantation house.

Many of the elements of the house, including the bricks, were produced in Philadelphia and transported to the building site, where they were assembled by slaves.

The attic had a 700-gallon copper boiler with wood and coal burners; the home featured hot and cold running water year-round, making it one of the most technologically advanced buildings of the time.

The unique architectural style, featuring Gothic revival and Tudor elements, led to it being described as "a proper English manor house that looked as if it had been set down on the Louisiana landscape by mistake and forgotten about.