Misplaced Pages

Sylvan Retreat
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	2935 Mount Lebanon Street, Gibsland, Louisiana
Coordinates	32°32′58″N 93°03′17″W / 32.54947°N 93.05463°W / 32.54947; -93.05463
Area	5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built	1848
Built by	William George Walker
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Raised plantation house
NRHP reference No.	79001053
Added to NRHP	December 6, 1979

Sylvan Retreat, also known as the J. H. Pumphrey Home, is a historic raised former plantation house at 610 N. 3rd Street in Gibsland in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. It was built in 1848 by William George Walker in another location, and was moved into Giblsland in 1884. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

It was built as a five-bay Greek Revival raised plantation house, with wood frame built of virgin cypress joined by mortises and pinned with wooden pegs. It had a front gallery and a hip roof. All doors and window sashes were cut on site and assembled with wooden pegs. It included five 17 by 20 feet (5.2 m × 6.1 m) rooms and a 12 by 35 feet (3.7 m × 10.7 m) central hall, with 15 feet (4.6 m) ceilings. It had front and rear galleries plus a separated kitchen.

It was altered in 1884 by moving it to Gibsland, by combining four exterior fireplaces, and by reducing the front gallery to a four-column portico.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. ^ "Sylvan Retreat / J. H. Pumphrey Home" (PDF). State of Louisiana's Division of Historic Preservation. with three historic plans

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Bienville Parish, Louisiana

v t e U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana
Lists by parish	Acadia Allen Ascension Assumption Avoyelles Beauregard Bienville Bossier Caddo Calcasieu Caldwell Cameron Catahoula Claiborne Concordia DeSoto East Baton Rouge East Carroll East Feliciana Evangeline Franklin Grant Iberia Iberville Jackson Jefferson Jefferson Davis La Salle Lafayette Lafourche Lincoln Livingston Madison Morehouse Natchitoches Orleans Ouachita Plaquemines Pointe Coupee Rapides Red River Richland Sabine St. Bernard St. Charles St. Helena St. James St. John the Baptist St. Landry St. Martin St. Mary St. Tammany Tangipahoa Tensas Terrebonne Union Vermilion Vernon Washington Webster West Baton Rouge West Carroll West Feliciana Winn
Other lists	National Historic Landmarks Bridges and Tunnels
Keeper of the Register History of the National Register of Historic Places Property types Historic district Contributing property

• National Register of Historic Places

v t e Municipalities and communities of Bienville Parish, Louisiana, United States
Parish seat: Arcadia
Towns	Arcadia Gibsland Mount Lebanon Ringgold
Villages	Bienville Bryceland Castor Jamestown Lucky Saline
Unincorporated communities	Brown Fryeburg Roy Sparta Taylor
Louisiana portal United States portal

This article about a property in Louisiana on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana
• Greek Revival architecture in Louisiana
• Houses completed in 1848
• National Register of Historic Places in Bienville Parish, Louisiana
• Plantation houses in Louisiana
• 1848 establishments in Louisiana
• Louisiana Registered Historic Place stubs