Paul and Serena Snyder stand outside their home in Shreveport, La., Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2024.
Paul and Serena Snyder sit outside their home in Shreveport, La., Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2024.
Paul and Serena Snyder of Newport Beach, California, picked up and moved to Shreveport, to live in their dream home. Front foyer But they didn't do it on a whim. "He had his business, but there was something in our hearts that yearned for something else, and we were both very attracted to southern architecture, and so we would dream and look at pictures of columns and dormers," Serena said.
They began searching online a few years ago for houses in southern states. The South Highlands house they purchased was almost 100 years old, a red brick two-story in the Georgian Revival style built in 1926. Although the house has needed a few repairs, they fell in love with the white columns, the large front door, the shell above the door, the original hardwood floors and windows, the intricate woodwork, the arched doorways, the red brick, details like copper gutters and dentil molding, and the large backyard.
Original sconces adorn the dining room walls, and a concrete planter sits out front, in the same place it appears in a photo with the original owners. When they visited Shreveport to look at this and one other house in person, they spent a lot of time looking at the neighborhood. "We're like, 'This place is very enchanting.
No two houses are the same. It's a pretty nice place,'" Paul said. The amoun.