St. John Baptist Church (Lecompte, Louisiana)

It is a small clapboard church building with elaborate Eastlake/Queen Anne architecture in the United States ornamentation.

The entrances to the church, one at the base of the tower, "are particularly ornate with their half-timbered gabled porticos with bargeboard trim and turned columns and balusters.

[2] In 1982, there was a small frame building adjacent to the listed property, to the northwest, which was the Lamourie Colored School, which had operated from around 1893 to 1954, when it was moved to its current location and then served as a social hall for the church.

[2] It is located in what may now be known as the hamlet of Lamourie, which appears on maps now, between Lecompte and Alexandria, Louisiana.

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