Carville Historic District

designed and built by New Orleans architect Henry Howard in 1859 for sugar planter Robert C. Camp. It is a raised stucco over brick transitional Greek Revival Italianate mansion featuring a central mass with a hexastyle double gallery and flanking two story wings. Fluted Corinthian columns over heavily rusticated pillars support the gallery. Column capitals are correctly fashioned from double rows of acanthus leaf carvings with volutess or scrolls springing
from the centers. Rather thin, molded and decorated abacus blocks supply the transition from columns to architrave. / The facade is well detailed with Italianate features, including rows of brackets, segmental openings, and panels. Above the gallery is a busy entablature with a bracketed, dentiled frieze under a projecting cornice and a segmented, paneled parapet. The bracket and dentil motif of the principal frieze continues around the returning entablature to terminate at the juncture of the house and gallery, only to reappear in a modified form of elongated brackets spaced across the wings, down the sides, and onto the rear. Meanwhile, the square, post and lintel fenestration of the central block contrasts with segmental openings in the wings. These features, together with the deep rustication of the central pillars and the heavy cast-iron gallery railings, impart a heavy sculptural quality to the facade. From every angle, front and rear, a certain dynamism emerges from broken up surfaces and contrasting motifs.

Contributing properties

• 1939-1941 buildings. This entry comprises several buildings:
• *North and South Quadrangles of patient quarters and
• *Laundry
• *Sisters of Charity Quarters
• *Medical Records Building.
• Old Dining Hall/Cafeteria,. Built 1923.
• Infirmary,. Built 1934.
• Protestant Chapel,. Built 1934.
• Catholic Chapel,. Built 1924.
• Isolation Building,. Built 1936.
• Power Plant,. Built 1924.
• Water Treatment Facility,.
• Greenhouse,.
• Greenhouse/Supply House,.
• Indian Camp Plantation House,. Built 1859.
• Gatehouse,.
• Training Building,.
• Unstyled Building #1,.
• Unstyled Building #2,.
• Staff Quarters #1,. Built between 1920s and 1930s.
• Staff Quarters #2,. Built between 1920s and 1930s.
• Staff Quarters #3,. Built between 1920s and 1930s.
• Staff Quarters #4,. Built between 1920s and 1930s.
• Staff Quarters #5,. Built between 1920s and 1930s.
• Staff Quarters #6,. Built between 1920s and 1930s.
• Staff Quarters #7,. Built between 1920s and 1930s.
• Staff Quarters #8,. Built between 1920s and 1930s.
• Staff Quarters #9,. Built between 1920s and 1930s.
• Staff Quarters #10,. Built between 1920s and 1930s.
• Garage,. Built between 1920s and 1930s.