Lake Charles · Calcasieu Parish · in Charpentier Historic District
Built 1912 · Open to visit
A 1912 Favrot and Livaudais school that taught Lake Charles children until 1976, housed soldiers during the 1941 maneuvers, and is now a city arts center with galleries, studios and a theatre on a block of oaks planted by schoolchildren.
Lake Charles · Calcasieu Parish
About 1880 to 1939 · View from outside
About 40 blocks of lumber-boom houses next to downtown Lake Charles in Queen Anne, Eastlake, Colonial Revival and bungalow styles, many with the tapered two-story 'Lake Charles column'. It is on the National Register as the Lake Charles Historic District, and the visitor bureau publishes walking tour routes; the homes are private.
DeRidder · Beauregard Parish
About 1905 to 1930 · View from outside
Three blocks of brick commercial buildings along Washington Street that grew up around the railroad in the lumber boom and stayed intact after the mills closed. The city's Historic Walking Tour covers the district with the Gothic Jail, the courthouse and the depot museum.
DeRidder · Beauregard Parish
Built 1941 · Open to visit
The 1941 DeRidder USO building, built as an off-base club for soldiers during the Louisiana Maneuvers and described as the first USO not built on a military reservation. The War Room Museum inside shows World War II memorabilia on a self-guided visit.
DeRidder · Beauregard Parish
Built 1914 · Open to visit
Day tours Mon to Fri at 10 AM, 11 AM, 1:30 PM and 3 PM; weekend tours by appointment for groups of 10 or more
The 1914 Beauregard Parish Jail, a Collegiate Gothic building with cells around a central spiral staircase, known locally as the Hanging Jail after two men were hanged there in 1928. Guided day tours run on weekdays and lantern tours on some weekend nights.
Lake Charles · Calcasieu Parish
Built 1912 · Grounds open
The copper-domed Classical Revival courthouse by Favrot and Livaudais, built to replace the courthouse lost in the Great Fire of 1910. Its restored Courtroom A is still used for large cases.
Lake Charles · Calcasieu Parish
About 1913 · Grounds open
The dark red brick Romanesque Revival cathedral of the Diocese of Lake Charles, built after the Great Fire of 1910 destroyed the earlier church. Inside are Viennese stained glass and Carrara marble altars.
Port Arthur
Built 1856 · Grounds open
An 85-foot brick lighthouse lit in 1856 and retired in 1952, possibly the oldest brick structure in southwest Louisiana. Volunteers are slowly rebuilding its iron stairs.
Iowa · Calcasieu Parish
Built 1937 · View from outside
A red-brick Classical Revival school that was Iowa's high school and now serves as the main building of J. I. Watson Middle School. It was listed for its architecture and for its long role as the center of school and social life in this prairie town.
DeQuincy · Calcasieu Parish · in DeQuincy Historic District
Built 1885 · Grounds open
A Carpenter Gothic church built in 1885 in Patterson, Louisiana, taken apart in 1942 and rebuilt in DeQuincy, where it was reconsecrated in 1946. Set Free Fellowship Church now holds services there and rents it for weddings and events.
Many of these are private homes and working buildings: please look from the street.