Largest antebellum mansion in the south — built in 1859 with 165 rooms — burns to the ground

NY Post ^ | 5/16/25 | Shane Galvin

[Rural_Michigan]

Arson. Murder. Rape.

[TimSkalaBim]

Dems like to say slaves built America, but that’s kind of hard to prove when everything slaves built has been burned to the ground.

[desertsolitaire]

Carcosa.
The King in Yellow.
True Detective Series 1 HBO.

[No name given]

Most likely.

[SunkenCiv]

The Demagogic Party is a collection of violent rival street gangs.

• Louisiana plantation is on fire. [05/16/2025]

[Bon of Babble]

You’d think something this historic and valuable would have more fire protection?

Sorry to see it burn - it is apart of American history, which includes good, bad and ugly. I’ve seen some of these plantation homes and they are spectacular.

Lots of comments cheering this on.

[Old Grumpy]

You’re absolutely correct.

[jeffersondem]

In terms of spectacular wealth, I don’t think this home compares with current mansions being built in the U.S. funded with money created from slaves toiling in Red China.

But the continued use of slave labor is on us, not our great, great, great grandparents so let’s just forget about what is happening right now.

[gloryblaze]

Horrible! What a loss!

https://www.nottoway.com/

[Frank Drebin]

Dems are also trying to erase their history.

[Rockingham]

There are still some good historians, and the profession seem ripe for a return to traditional norms. You are correct that even bad aspects of the past offer extraordinary artifacts. Sadly, we have now lost one of the grandest surviving plantation houses of the antebellum era.

[knarf]

Go look at how some old barns are kept together with pegs to get an idea of how we engineered such things, then go really look around an older, Victorian style funeral home to see how some kids may have come down those steps on Christmas morning.

IMO, we've relinquished a lot for the cause of progress and simplicity.

[mass55th]

I visited Nottoway Plantation many years ago during a trip to New Orleans. I’ve got pictures in an album somewhere of the outside and inside. On that same visit, I toured Tezcuco Plantation. It was destroyed by fire on May 2, 2002, so my visit to both plantations took place about a year before.

[Glad2bnuts]

The history of all mankind, people enslaving others. Europeans bought slaves from Africans who sold their slaves too them. So Black people enslaved their own people, whites enslaved their own people, Middle Eastern people are still enslaving people, as are the Chinese.

[Libloather]

Owner of largest antebellum mansion in the South hopes to rebuild after devastating fire — as some celebrate its destruction

https://nypost.com/2025/05/17/us-news/owner-of-ruined-nottoway-plantation-in-la-hopes-to-rebuild/