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Seebohm, Caroline.

Under live oaks : the last great houses of the Old South / Caroline Seebohm & Peter Wolszynski.

New York : Clarkson Potter, ©2002.

304 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

The authors spent two years traveling through Mississippi, Louisiana, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, and the Carolinas, photographing old homes and plantations, and interviewing the residents. The result is a stunning, elegant, and often poignant look at a vanishing way of life. An appendix provides information about houses open to the public.

Plantations -- Southern States.

Architecture, Domestic -- Southern States.

Architecture -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.

Plantation life -- Southern States -- History.

Includes index.

Virginia : Sherwood Forest, Black Walnut Farm, the Woodlands -- The Carolinas : Cooleemee Plantation, McLeod House -- Mississippi : Paloma Plantation & Hayne Hall, Cedar Hill, Fleur de Lys, the Elms, Green Leaves, Lansdowne -- Louisiana : Catalpa -- Tennessee : Fairvue -- Georgia : St. Elmo, Stokes-McHenry House, Dinglewood, Shields-Ethridge Farm, Carnegie Estate -- Florida : Stockton-Curry House -- Alabama : Winter Place -- Appendix 1 : distinctive architectural styles of the antebellum South -- Appendix 2 : defining the decorative arts of the Old South.

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