Island Home
It is off Louisiana Highway 21 and is reached by a bridge across Bayou Rapides.
It is a central hall plan house with a five-bay front facade, with elements of Classical Revival style; it is basically Greek Revival. 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.
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.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "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
- ^ 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. Retrieved July 24, 2019.