NRHP Reference # 80001722 Added to NRHP 4 December 1980 | Area 55 ha | |
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Location Roughly bounded by Institute Dr., LA 314, Horton and Race Sts., Jackson, Louisiana Architectural style Early Commercial, Greek Revival, Late Victorian, other | ||
Jackson Historic District in Jackson, Louisiana is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It includes the Centenary College and the East Feliciana Parish Courthouse, which are both separately listed on the NRHP.
It was deemed significant as a "surviving rural town center from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with banks, shops, residences, churches, warehouses and all manner of other buildings which might be expected in such a town.... But the historic area of Jackson is superior to most historic town centers because it is unusually well-preserved."
The district included 124 structures. Of these, 29 buildings, or 24 percent, are Federal or Greek Revival or other early buildings built from 1815 to 1845. Ten buildings (8 percent) are from 1845 to 1875, including three churches. For 1875 to 1910, there are 15 buildings (13 percent), including Late Victorian and Queen Anne styles. For 1910 to c.1930 there are 43 buildings (35 percent). Twenty buildings (24 percent) are intrusions.