The James Wade Bolton House

The house was built by the man who would later run the town's bank. James W. Bolton raised it in 1899, with no architect named, and went on to preside over the Rapides Bank and Trust Company from 1912 to 1936 and the Louisiana Bankers' Association in 1916 and 1917. His father, George Washington Bolton, had been the bank's first president, and his son James Calderwood Bolton led it from 1936 to 1956 and served with the American Bankers' Association and the LSU Foundation. The house came out of three generations of one banking family.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Arna Bontemps African American Museum — steps away
  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 — 1.1 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 — 2.5 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 — 4.8 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

• Arna Wendell Bontemps Home — steps away
• Rapides Parish Library — steps away
• Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback — steps away
• Huie Dellmon House — steps away