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ELMWOOD MANOR Circa 1804
ELMWOOD MANOR - A pre-Civil War plantation home built in West Indies style, located on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
This antebellum home was built by Jessie Cowand, a sea captain, who came
to, what was then, the Mississippi Territory from Virginia and purchased
the land; on which he later built his home; from Madam LaSaussier, who
originally received the land by a Spanish land grant. Jessie Cowand
developed this property into a large sea island cotton plantation, which -
included what is now Cowand Point and Cedar Point, and extended from the
West shore of the Bay of St.	Louis to the Old Spanish Trail.
Jessie Cowand began construction of his home, Elmwood Manor,	in	1804,	at
a location of high ground on	a point overlooking the Bay of St.	Louis.
Construction of his home was	delayed due to the War of 1812,	in	which	the
Vonly naval battle fought in our waters in United States history took place
in the Bay. The house was eventually completed in 1815.
Elmwood Manor is a two	story brick	structure consisting of double parlors,
livingroom and library	downstairs,	with a twelve	foot	wide breezeway that
runs from the front to	the rear of	the building.	The	second floor consists
of four large bedrooms, and again,	a twelve foot	wide	breezeway that runs
the entire length of the house. The rear of the house was built identically
to the front, with brick columns on the bottom and Tuscon columns on the
^ second level. The porches extend the entire width of the house and measure
10^ feet by 54 feet. Each room has double french doors leading onto .. ***>• «»
- either the upper or lower porches.
The house is constructed in such a way that, if there is the slightest breeze, it will be noticed in each room and, due to its1 numerous windows and doors,
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^ /one can enjoy the scenery and good weather from any point within. Also, it