The long-vacant Oleander Hotel on Grand Isle, which has hung on for nearly a century, is among the newest additions to the National Register of Historic Places.

Officials with the state Office of Cultural Development’s Division of Historic Preservation said they received word about the listing on July 25.

Restore Grand Isle , a nonprofit, has said it plans to restore the two-story building as a visitors’ center, museum and community space.

The nomination was prepared by Allyson Hinz, a recent graduate student in Tulane School of Architecture and Built Environment’s Historic Preservation program, who wrote that the hotel serves as an example of Louisiana Coastal Vernacular architecture that has become rare on the barrier island.

“Commissioned by lifelong (Grand Isle) resident John Ludw

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