<Tr> <Th> Added to NRHP </Th> <Td> September 25, 1991 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Designated NHL </Th> <Td> April 27, 1992 </Td> </Tr> <P> Evergreen Plantation is a plantation located on Louisiana Highway 18 near Wallace, Louisiana . The main house was constructed mostly in 1790, renovated to its current Greek Revival style in 1832, and the plantation's historical crop was sugarcane . It was an operating plantation up until about 1930, when the Depression brought about the abandonment of the house . However, it continued to produce sugar cane under the direction of the bank that owned it, and is still a working sugar cane plantation today . It was extensively restored during the 1940s, with 300,000 bricks from the demolished Uncle Sam Plantation used in the restoration . </P> <P> The plantation includes 37 contributing buildings, all but eight of them antebellum, making it one of the most complete plantation complexes in the state and the South . Of great significance are the 22 slave quarters, arranged in a double row along an allée of oak trees . </P>

National historic landmark evergreen plantation in wallace louisiana