St. John Baptist Church (Lecompte, Louisiana)

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.

St. John Baptist Church
St. John Baptist Church (Lecompte, Louisiana) is located in Louisiana
St. John Baptist Church (Lecompte, Louisiana)
St. John Baptist Church (Lecompte, Louisiana) is located in the United States
St. John Baptist Church (Lecompte, Louisiana)
Nearest cityLecompte, Louisiana
Coordinates31°7′51″N 92°24′37″W
Area0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Built1888
Architectural styleQueen Anne-Eastlake
NRHP reference No.82002794[1]
Added to NRHPJune 25, 1982

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."[2] There is stained glass in a Palladian window in the front gable, and also in round-arched fanlights above the other windows.[2]

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.[2]

It is located in what may now be known as the hamlet of Lamourie, which appears on maps now, between Lecompte and Alexandria, Louisiana.

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Sue Eakin (March 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: St. John Baptist Church". National Park Service. Retrieved March 20, 2023. With accompanying nine photos from 1982


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