Thomas House

787 LA, Martin, Louisiana. County/parish: Red River.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 22, 2002. NRIS 02000038.

1 contributing building.

From Wikipedia:

Thomas House (Martin, Louisiana)

The Thomas House on rural Louisiana Highway 787 near Martin in Red River Parish, Louisiana, is a historic house built around 1855. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

It is a log house built originally with a single pen, which was expanded by a frame addition later. The original log section is well-preserved, and is of fairly fine work, with squared logs joined by half-dovetail notching.

It is significant as a rare surviving example of domestic log construction by the Scots-Irish/Appalachian Uplanders who settled northern Louisiana in the 1830s.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/73974598

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