Ashpoint Plantation

Ash Point is a one-story raised cottage with a central hall, a room on each side and a rear wing that held the kitchen and dining room. A gallery runs across the five-bay front on square posts with molded capitals, under an unusually large entablature. Preservationists call it a late provincial Greek Revival cottage, with Italianate touches in the round-headed door panels and jigsawn balustrade. It is also known as Woodlawn, and the name Cashpoint sometimes attached to it is an error. Twentieth-century changes did not cost it its 1982 Register listing. It is private; look from the highway.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• R. W. Norton Art Gallery — 11 mi
  A free art museum and 40 acres of azalea gardens in Shreveport, founded in 1946 on Rodessa oil money, with Remington and Russell, an Audubon folio and no photography allowed.
• Lake Bistineau State Park — 12 mi
  A 903-acre state park on a lake the Great Raft made, opened in 1946 with a separate section for Black visitors from 1956, and now known for cypress water and a lake that is drawn down.
• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 13 mi
  The Art Deco hall of 1929 where the Louisiana Hayride went out over KWKH from 1948 to 1960 and where Elvis Presley first played Shreveport on October 16, 1954.
• Spring Street Museum — 14 mi
  An 1866 bank building downtown that also held a Freedman's Savings and Trust branch in 1870, now a free LSUS-run museum with a Victorian parlor and the original vault.

More markers nearby

• Oakland Plantation — 7.5 mi
• Pioneer Heritage Center — 7.9 mi
• The Arrest of Isaac Williams and his Men — 8.1 mi
• "Hell's Angels" — 11 mi