Leconte Family Plantation House

(Early Creole Architecture)

Milot Road, Near Cap Haitian, Haiti

Earliest phases of Creole architecture remain almost entirely undocumented. While late 18th and early 19th century Creole houses from Louisiana, the Gulf Coast area, and Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, have been surveyed and studied, our knowledge of prototypical 17th and early 18th century Creole architecture suffers from a near complete absence of surviving standing structures. Yet, we know that Creole architecture originated in the Spanish colonies of the Greater Antilles, as well as in French and English colonies established upon their remains--Jamaica and Haiti.