Cook Home

By late 1904 contractor J. D. Bragg was erecting the frame, and the house that resulted has double-wall brick walls, longleaf yellow pine joists and a pyramid roof. A living hall joins a broad staircase and a fireplace, a pairing considered the only one of its kind in the city, and wide doorways carry scrollsaw lacework in the transoms. The octagonal corner turret has a bell-cast roof and, because no porch crosses in front of it, is judged the most impressive of Alexandria's Queen Anne turrets.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Arna Bontemps African American Museum — 0.9 mi
  The restored Alexandria house where the Harlem Renaissance writer Arna Bontemps was born in 1902, on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
• Forts Randolph and Buhlow State Historic Site — 1.3 mi
  Two Confederate earthen forts on the Red River at Pineville, built with enslaved labor and never attacked, beside the remains of Bailey's Dam.
• Kent Plantation House — 1.4 mi
  Rapides Parish's oldest known standing building, a Creole house with a February tour and a 2023 memorial that put the enslaved first.
• Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum — 5.5 mi
  A National Guard museum in a replica WWII barracks at Camp Beauregard, built around the huge 1940-41 war games in Central Louisiana. Free.

More markers nearby

• The Jewish Temple (Congregation Gemiluth Chassodim) — 0.7 mi
• Alexandria's Oldest Hospital — 0.8 mi
• Alexandria Holocaust Memorial — 0.8 mi
• St. Francis Xavier Cathedral Complex — 0.8 mi