Eden near Gardner, Louisiana is a house built perhaps around 1850. It was added to the

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in 1984. It is a central hall plan house, two rooms deep, with a rear ell wing. While family history suggests it was built around 1830 by Pleasant H. Hunter, evidence such as its heavy

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moldings suggest a later date. In 1984, its original four chimneys and four aedicule style mantels survived. With It is located off Highway 121, near its intersection with Highway 1200, about from

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. It was listed as one result of a study of 10 Neo-Classical farm-plantation houses along Bayou Rapides. As for several of the others ( China Grove,

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, Island Home, Longview, Eden was modified by addition of hood along its original gallery, termed a false gallery, which provides additional protection from the rain, detracting somewhat but not greatly from its original appearance.

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