Island Home is a historical house in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, in or near Gardner. It was built around 1850 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]
Island Home | |
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| Nearest city | Gardner, Louisiana |
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| Coordinates | 31°19′50″N 92°40′36″W / 31.330553°N 92.676575°W |
| Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Built | c.1850 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| MPS | Neo-Classical Architecture of Bayou Rapides TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 84000557[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 5, 1984 |
It is off Louisiana Highway 21 and is reached by a bridge across Bayou Rapides.[2][3]
It is a central hall plan house with a five-bay front facade, with elements of Classical Revival style; it is basically Greek Revival.[4] Its entrance is unusual with its side lights rising to the level of the transom above the door. It is two rooms deep, with a rear ell wing. Changes to the building over the years were deemed not too damaging for it to be listed.[2]
It was listed as one result of a study of ten Neoclassical farm-plantation houses along Bayou Rapides. As were several of the others (China Grove, Eden, Geneva, Hope, Longview), Island Home was modified by addition of a hood along its original gallery, termed a false gallery, which provides additional protection from the rain, detracting somewhat but not greatly from its original appearance.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b "Louisiana Division of Archaeology and Historic Preservation Standing Structures Survey: Island Home". National Park Service. Retrieved July 24, 2019. With accompanying four photos from 1983
- ^ Google maps/satellite view
- ^ a b Louisiana's National Register staff; Rae Swent; Alice Hunter (July 1984). "National Register of Historic Places: Neo-Classical Architecture of Bayou Rapides TR" (PDF). National Park Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 12, 2012. Retrieved July 24, 2019.
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