Lecompte High School

When Lecompte's historic buildings were surveyed, about 103 survived, nearly all modest vernacular structures from the late 1800s and early 1900s. The school is the one monumental landmark and the only architect-designed building among them. Three stories of brick give it Beaux Arts massing with Neo-Classical decoration: a stone entrance with Tuscan columns, cast concrete and plaster ornament, and brick parapets with a broken pediment. A parish library branch now fills a former basement room, and a two-story gymnasium on the grounds is too new to count as historic.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Epps House: Solomon Northup's Gateway to Freedom — 6.2 mi
  The Creole cottage Solomon Northup helped build for the man who enslaved him, moved twice and now a small museum on the LSU Alexandria campus.
• Arna Bontemps African American Museum — 15 mi
  The restored Alexandria house where the Harlem Renaissance writer Arna Bontemps was born in 1902, on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
• Kent Plantation House — 16 mi
  Rapides Parish's oldest known standing building, a Creole house with a February tour and a 2023 memorial that put the enslaved first.
• Forts Randolph and Buhlow State Historic Site — 16 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.

More markers nearby

• Town of Lecompte — 0.2 mi
• Smith's Landing — 0.4 mi
• Epps House (Solomon Northup's Gateway To Freedom) — 5.9 mi
• Epps House — 6.0 mi