MADEWOOD
House — Napoleonville, Louisiana
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/madewood-napoleonville-louisiana/

The 1846 Greek Revival—where the Bayou Lafourche dead stay.

Madewood is a house in Napoleonville, Louisiana. The 1846 Greek Revival—where the Bayou Lafourche dead stay. HauntHunt files it with plantation, local folklore and haunted places. Its accounts name only a collective — the madewood dead. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 2 legends, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.

Madewood was built in 1846 — the Greek Revival mansion on Bayou Lafourche that is considered one of the South's purest examples of the style, a sugar plantation's showpiece whose columns and proportions were the architect's masterwork.
The file's documented spine is the architecture's perfection: a plantation house so correct in its Greek Revival lines that it became the standard, the sugar wealth's finest statement on the bayou.

THE MANSION'S DEAD
The lore reports figures in the mansion — the dead reportedly seen, the file's ghosts being the house's own: the plantation's people reportedly still in the rooms the sugar built, the mansion's perfection reportedly holding its occupants.
The Madewood dead are the file's entity — a masterpiece of plantation architecture reportedly keeping its people, the perfect house's residents including those it was built on.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Madewood is the archive's perfect-Greek file — the South's purest Greek Revival plantation house, keeping figures reportedly in its rooms. The documented architecture is the record; the dead are the lore of a house built on sugar.
A mansion of perfect proportions keeps its people — the file's suggestion being that Madewood's masterpiece includes its dead.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] apparition: Reported figures in the mansion. Madewood wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. Sources including 'Madewood' keep the claim in circulation. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.
  source: Madewood (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madewood_Plantation_House)
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The dead are reportedly seen. The accounts name only a collective — the Madewood dead. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. Sources including 'Madewood' keep the claim in circulation. A ghost with a name outlasts a ghost without one; the reports keep it employed.
  source: Madewood (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madewood_Plantation_House)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· [1846] The 1846 mansion is documented. Madewood's history is documented rather than told — this entry is part of that spine. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'Madewood' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from. The account stays in the file — reported, retold, unresolved.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Madewood — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madewood_Plantation_House

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