New Iberia High School, New Iberia Louisiana
Although New Iberia contains a wealth of architecturally significant buildings in the nineteenth-century French Creole, Greek Revival, Romanesque, Queen Anne, and Eastlake styles, its early twentieth-century architectural patrimony is fairly undistinguished. With the exception of the high school, an Italian Renaissance church, a Georgian Revival post office, and an Art Deco theatre, New Iberia's remaining early twentieth-century non-residential structures can be characterized as square, two-story buildings, often of party wall construction, and exhibiting little decoration. Although the community has a few noteworthy Colonial Revival homes, its collection of twentieth-century residences consists mostly of holdover Queen Anne cottages and plain bungalows. Against this background, the Neo-Classical-styled New Iberia High School is a notable visual landmark. The building served as New Iberia's high
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