Sullivan House

Bogalusa, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Heritage registerNational Register of Historic Places↗

The Sullivan House, erected in 1907 at 223 South Border Drive in Bogalusa, Louisiana, is a substantial two-and-a-half-story residence with a symmetrical central block flanked by hip-roofed three-story wings, featuring a ballroom and two-story sun porch. Built of long leaf yellow pine with clapboard siding on a concrete foundation, the house synthesizes Colonial Revival, Renaissance Revival, Federal, Neoclassical, and Queen Anne architectural influences, notably departing from the Queen Anne style's characteristic asymmetrical massing. Constructed for William Henry Sullivan, the general manager of the Great Southern Lumber Company and founder of Bogalusa, the house served as the "Official Quarters" and the most prominent residence in the company officials' neighborhood. Sullivan, who established the town itself in 1907–1908 and served as its first mayor until his death in 1929, was instrumental in developing what became a significant lumber industry center. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.