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United States Department of the Interior
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National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet	0n,ard	5aks
Bay St. Louis, Hancock County,
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7.	DESCRIPTION
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Situated on an elevated plot of land facing the Si. Louis Bay and the Mississippi Sound, Onwaid Oaks (c. 1875) is a raised Creole corage with Greek Revival and- Itaiianate ..	influences. Resting on reconstructed brick piers, the house is a frame, one-and-one-haSf
w:f	story, seven by four bay, side-gabled building with undercut galleries spanning both the front
and rear elevations. The galleries feature rectangular box columns, plain balustrades, and wooden decks. The steeply pitched gable roof is pierced by two interior brick chimneys and _...	by three gabled dormers onjboth the front and rear elevations. The floor plan of the hou’se is
;	typical of Greek Revival cottages of the period* being a center hall, double-pile plan.
r- -	The main (southeast) elevation has a central entrance fitted with double-leaf, Italianate-stvle
doors with arched half-glazing and molded wood panels below. A three-light transom is r	above the doors, and rather than sidelights, a six-over-six, doubie-hung window is located to
---------	each side of the main entrance. The other four bays of the main facade are filled with
v	double-leaf, French doors topped by three-light transoms. The three gabled dormers ox the
sot	main facade were reconstructed using historic photographs and replace a large, twentieth
p	century, shed roof dormer. The dormer windows are six-over-six, double-hung sash.
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The rear elevation is identical to the main facade. Although the rear elevation originally had U .	oniy	one	dormer	window,	two	dormers	have	ceen	added, The present property owner plans
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The side elevations each have four six-over-six, double-hung windows on the lower level, and in the upper level the two central bays have the same type windows while the outer bay:, have paired casement windows.
The interior of the house has a 16-foot wide central hall flanked by two rooms to either side. The hallway has its original straight-run stairway with turned newel post and balusters; however, the present owner has reversed the direction of the stairway from facing the rear to face the front entrance. The first floor interior doors are four-panel doors topped by three-light transoms, the ceilings are 12-feet in height, and due to extensive water damage to tne plaster, the walls and ceilings have been sheetrocked. Each of the four rooms has a corner, coai-burning fireplace with wooden Renaissance Revival style mantelpiece embellished with fluted pilasters and .carved designs of the period. Due to poor structural condition, one enure