The beautiful art deco era construction and the dining options at the Heidelberg Hotel, built in 1927, was based on a napkin sketch by visionary architect Edward Nield.
Inniswold is listed as one of the top places to live in Louisiana according to the popular real estate blog Movoto
The beautiful art deco era construction and the dining options at the Heidelberg Hotel, built in 1927, was based on a napkin sketch by visionary architect Edward Nield.
Inniswold is listed as one of the top places to live in Louisiana according to the popular real estate blog Movoto. It's great for shopping, too -- the Mall of Louisiana offers plenty of retail shops, including national chains, and is Baton Rouge's top shopping destination. Inniswold is a census-designated place in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, and a part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area. This suburban enclave has a population of 6,180 as of the 2010 census, and it's only about 14 minutes from the heart of Baton Rouge.
This is a popular spot to live, and so you may need a month to find the house rental or apartment complexes you will most enjoy. You can look any time of year.
Starting Your Search
Whether you're looking for a studio apartment or larger apartment homes in Inniswold, a good place to start is with rental listings in local papers such as The Advocate, Picayune Times, or Weekly Press. While vacancy rates are low year 'round, there is a good number of rental properties available, so rely on rental listings in the papers and online to find apartments. If you can visit the community, check out the streets for posted rental signs. Take a look at apartment complexes such as The Park on Bluebonnet.
What to Bring
Forget the winter coat. Summer temperatures hover around 81 degrees, and winters are mild here. Just bring the kind of information landlords may require, such as access to credit reports, your ID, bank statements or tax returns, and your rental and work history.
An average commute time of 22 minutes makes this location a great choice for workers in the area. Inniswold is the area located around Bluebonnet Road between Jefferson Highway and I-10. Lots of wooded land and green space dot its neighborhoods.
Airline-Jefferson: This is a large community in the Inniswold area, with mostly three and four bedroom homes and some apartment complexes. Homes were constructed between 1970 and the present. Suburban based on density, it even includes Cypress Lake Dog Park, so your pups would be happy here.
Inniswold: This central part of the community is made up primarily of medium to small single family homes and apartment complexes. Both owners and renters live here in homes built primarily between 1970 and the present. The BREC Industriplex Park playground is located here.
With the nearby convenience of Baton Rouge amenities, museums and casinos, Inniswold offers plenty of free time activities right in the community. You can enjoy the mild weather in Inniswold at several lovely locations, like the Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center, a 103-acre facility that includes an exhibit hall filled with live animals, photographic depictions of the site's flora and fauna, and even a decoy collection.
But it's the outdoors that will really draw you in: over a mile of gravel and boardwalk paths display plentiful wildlife from birds to armadillos and turtles, a beautiful cypress-tupelo swamp, beech-magnolia, and hardwood forests. Parklawn Park is another neighborhood attraction with tennis courts and a baseball field. With Baton Rouge just minutes away, you can also check out the USS Kidd, a WWII and Korean War ship, which is open as a memorial. If you're feeling lucky, enjoy some legal gambling at L'Auberge, which holds over 1,500 slot machines.
If golf's your thing, check out the City Park Golf Course -- the city of Baton Rouge's first course and still considered one of the finest. History also comes alive in this area with antebellum plantation houses such as Nottoway and Magnolia Mound, and the Old Louisiana State Capital, which perches atop a Baton Rouge bluff along the Mississippi River -- a site once marked by the a pole, or le baton rouge, as French explorers described the Native American meeting site. There's the Louisiana State Museum Baton Rouge and West Baton Rouge Museum, too.
Of course, come Mardi Gras time, you'll get to participate in a variety of fun activities, including (if you are a lover of puppies) the Mystic Krewe of Mutts -- an all dog parade. It rolls through town around Mardi Gras every year.
