For 150 years, Nottoway Plantation was a place of grandeur to some and a relic of hate to others, and now it has burned to the ground for everyone.
It was the South’s most enormous antebellum mansion, built in 1859 by the enslaved for a “sugar baron.” Enslaved architects, mathematicians, artists, landscape designers, builders, healers, executive chefs and wet nurses created and maintained its ornate features.
In 2019, hotel developer Joseph Jaeger Jr., owner of 16 New Orleans area properties, purchased the estate for $3.1 million (it’s currently owned by Dan Dyess, who also owns the historic Steel Magnolia House Bed and Breakfast in Natchitoches)…