Greenlaw House
historic house in Franklinton in Washington Parish, Louisiana
The Greenlaw House in Franklinton in Washington Parish, Louisiana was built in 1906. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
It is a one-and-a-half-story Queen Anne-style house with characteristic massing and textures. It has a turret and a wraparound gallery with bracketed Eastlake-style columns.
Edward Runnels Greenlaw, a businessman in sawmills and railroads, had the house built for his parents, Civil War veteran Captain Lawrence Dade Greenlaw and Dora Runnels Greenlaw, a poet.
The Greenlaw House has been rumored to be haunted which is a shared belief amongst a few previous residents.
“Greenlaw House” enters the record as historic house in Franklinton in Washington Parish, Louisiana. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Greenlaw, House and historic can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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