Island Home | |
Nearest city | Gardner, Louisiana |
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Coordinates | 31°19′50″N92°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 |
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]
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]