The Boscobel Cottage, in

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in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, and also known as Lower Boscobel Plantation, is a historic house built in about 1820. It was listed on the

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in 1979. It is located on the east bank of the Ouachita River, about below

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, on Cordell Lane, off what is now

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prior to the main house being built for the plantation. It was built by Judge Henry Bry. It includes

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and

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architecture with a central hallway. The listing included two

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. wit
two photos and a map
Another cottage from the plantation, the Bosco Plantation House, is also on the National Register of Historic Places.

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