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Snyder Memorial Museum and Creative Arts Center

Coordinates: 32°46′47″N 91°53′45″W / 32.77959°N 91.89579°W / 32.77959; -91.89579
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Snyder House
Snyder Memorial Museum and Creative Arts Center is located in Louisiana
Snyder Memorial Museum and Creative Arts Center
Snyder Memorial Museum and Creative Arts Center is located in the United States
Snyder Memorial Museum and Creative Arts Center
Location1620 East Madison Avenue, Bastrop, Louisiana
Coordinates32°46′47″N 91°53′45″W / 32.77959°N 91.89579°W / 32.77959; -91.89579
Area2.2 acres (0.89 ha)
Built1929
Built byA.G. McBride
ArchitectH.H. Land, Sr.
Architectural styleTudor Revival, Italianate
NRHP reference No.96001165[1]
Added to NRHPOctober 18, 1996

The Snyder Memorial Museum and Creative Arts Center, formerly the Snyder House, at 1620 East Madison Avenue in Bastrop in Morehouse Parish in northern Louisiana, was built in 1929. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 18, 1996. The listing included two contributing buildings.[1]

Architecture

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It was built in 1929 as a one-story brown and beige brick residence for Charles and Esther Snyder, with a tiled roof. According to its NRHP nomination, "The house is difficult to pigeonhole stylistically because it represents the eclecticism which characterized early twentieth architecture. It borrows from the "English cottage" style in its massing, but certain features give it an Italian or Mediterranean flavor. Although the Snyder House's many gables are not as steeply pitched as is typical of the "English cottage" style, its massing is perhaps best viewed within that tradition's penchant for a picturesque look. There are no less than eight gabled projections: two on the facade, one of which is an entrance porch, three on the eastern side elevation, two on the western side elevation, and a small one on the rear. Add to this a prominent front chimney (a favorite of the "English cottage" style). This "busy" massing and complex footprint belies the house's conventional central hall plan."[2]

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References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ^ "Snyder House / Snyder Memorial Museum and Creative Arts Center" (PDF). State of Louisiana's Division of Historic Preservation. 1996. Retrieved June 12, 2017. with two photos and a map
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