The Greenlaw House in Franklinton in Washington Parish, Louisiana was built in 1906. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.[1]
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| Location | 613 10th Ave., Franklinton, Louisiana |
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| Coordinates | 30°51′0″N 90°9′26″W / 30.85000°N 90.15722°W |
| Area | 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) |
| Built | 1906 |
| Architectural style | Queen Anne, Stick/eastlake |
| NRHP reference No. | 98000987[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 6, 1998 |
It is a one-and-a-half-story Queen Anne-style house with characteristic massing and textures. It has a turret and a wraparound gallery with bracketed Eastlake-style columns.[2]
Edward Runnels Greenlaw, a businessman in sawmills and railroads, had the house built for his parents, Civil War veteran Captain Lawrence Dade Greenlaw and Dora Runnels Greenlaw, a poet.[2]
The Greenlaw House has been rumored to be haunted which is a shared belief amongst a few previous residents.
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b "Greenlaw House" (PDF). State of Louisiana's Division of Historic Preservation. Retrieved April 5, 2017. with seven photos and a map Archived April 6, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
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