National Register of Historic Places

St. John Baptist Church

Lecompte, Rapides County, Louisiana
Listed
June 24, 1982
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
82002794

About this property

The St. John Baptist Church near Lecompte, Louisiana is a historic church in rural Rapides Parish, facing northeast towards Bayou Lamourie, which is a stream or river. It is a small clapboard church building with elaborate Eastlake/Queen Anne architecture in the United States ornamentation. It has a square tower at its northeast corner with bracketed, flared eaves. The entrances to the church, one at the base of the tower, "are particularly ornate with their half-timbered gabled porticos with bargeboard trim and turned columns and balusters." There is stained glass in a Palladian window in the front gable, and also in round-arched fanlights above the other windows. In 1982, there was a small frame building adjacent to the listed property, to the northwest, which was the Lamourie Colored School, which had operated from around 1893 to 1954, when it was moved to its current location and then served as a social hall for the church. It is located in what may now be known as the hamlet of Lamourie, which appears on maps now, between Lecompte and Alexandria, Louisiana.

Location

Lecompte, Rapides County, Louisiana
31.13096, -92.41034

Categories

ARCHITECTURE
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Sources

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Nearby Historic Sites

Lamourie Lock
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0.2 mi
Pegram Plantation House
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Lecompte High School
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2.9 mi
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3.9 mi
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Nearby Battles

Henderson Hill — Pre-Assault Skirmish
1864Civil War
5.4 mi

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When was St. John Baptist Church listed on the National Register?

St. John Baptist Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 24, 1982.

What type of historic resource is St. John Baptist Church?

St. John Baptist Church is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

What is the period of significance for St. John Baptist Church?

The period of significance for St. John Baptist Church is recorded as the industrial era.

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