6-730: The Schepis Building , on Main Street in Columbia, Louisiana , was built in about 1916. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The building was also added as a contributing property to the Downtown Columbia Historic District at the time of its creation on October 18, 1996 . It is a two-story cast concrete commercial building in the Italian Renaissance style. According to its NRHP nomination,
12-512: A property in Louisiana on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Columbia, Louisiana Columbia is a town in and the parish seat of Caldwell Parish , Louisiana , United States. The population was 277 in 2020. The land that became Columbia was first cleared by Daniel Humphries in 1827. A store was built a few years later
18-484: Is located just east of the center of Caldwell Parish at 32°6′15″N 92°4′37″W / 32.10417°N 92.07694°W / 32.10417; -92.07694 (32.104042, -92.076921), on the southwest bank of the Ouachita River . U.S. Route 165 passes through the center of town and bridges the river, leading north 32 miles (51 km) to Monroe and south 64 miles (103 km) to Alexandria . According to
24-545: The United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 0.77 square miles (2.00 km ), of which 0.76 square miles (1.96 km ) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km ), or 1.75%, is water. As of the 2020 United States census , there were 277 people, 152 households, and 107 families residing in the town. Law enforcement services are provided by the Columbia Police Department and
30-459: The builder, Nicholas John Schepis, was reportedly "a patriotic Italian immigrant who wanted to exemplify both his Italian roots as well as his new-found Americanism. Judging by the design, this could well be true. The facade is very specifically Italian, resembling Renaissance style palazzos of the mid-fifteenth century." The building is now hosting the Schepis Museum. This article about
36-503: The only settlement between Monroe, Louisiana , and the settlements of the Black River was formed. The harbor became a busy port for shipping cotton by steamboats and Packet boats until the arrival of the railroad. In February 1864 Columbia was the location of a skirmish between Federal and Confederate troops during the Civil War and there are several plantations in the area. Columbia
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