Hope is located in

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, in the rural community of McNutt, Louisiana. It was added to the

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on December 13, 1984. It is also a

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in the McNutt Rural Historic District. 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 ( Eden, China Grove,

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, Island Home, Longview), Hope 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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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana Houses completed in 1880 Houses in Rapides Parish, Louisiana National Register of Historic Places in Rapides Parish, Louisiana {{Louisiana-NRHP-stub