Island Home
Island Home is located in Louisiana
Island Home
Island Home is located in the United States
Island Home
Nearest cityGardner, Louisiana
Coordinates31°19′50″N 92°40′36″W / 31.330553°N 92.676575°W / 31.330553; -92.676575
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Builtc.1850
Architectural styleGreek Revival
MPSNeo-Classical Architecture of Bayou Rapides TR
NRHP reference No.84000557[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 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]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. 1 2 "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
  3. ↑ Google maps/satellite view
  4. 1 2 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.


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