| I thought I’d give you guys a closer look at another location from The Betrayed, the historic home Sarah Burke lives in. I chose the Beauregard-Keyes House partially because I’ve always thought it was beautiful, and partially because the layout, the unusual semi-basement ground floor and elevated first floor, fit the narrative. It also has a wealth of history, being originally built in the early 1800’s, which also fit in with Burke’s backstory. |
| Below is the description of the house from the book: |
The brakes made a light squealing noise as I eased the cruiser to a stop on Chartres Street, in front of the old nunnery. Across the street sat the Burke residence, a historic home in the style of the Greek revival.
An imposing porch dominated the front, with a short basement entry front and center in the four-foot-high wall, covered by a wrought-iron gate. To either side of the porch was a beautiful fence, also wrought-iron, reaching three feet high and terminating at each side in an iron gate supported by small stone columns. Behind these gates on each side was a short walkway which flowed into a winding iron staircase that delivered visitors onto the porch.
The house was painted a kind of dim yellow, like a lemon pie, with white trim and forest-green shutters. A hip roof supported by four white columns covered the porch. The first-floor wall was pierced by four double-casement windows and a simple-but-elegant white double door.
A sleek silver Jaguar XJ12 sat in the driveway off to the left of the house, the four round headlamps looking somehow as sinister and predatory as its namesake.
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