Jake's house

Alternate timeline
(covers information from an alternate timeline)
Old Jake Sisko at home in The Visitor

Jake gets his father's baseball from his desk

In an alternate timeline, Jake's house was a manor house located on the Louisiana bayou near New Orleans. It was where author Jake Sisko grew old into the 25th century, mostly alone, after the devastating loss of his father Benjamin Sisko to a temporal displacement phenomenon in 2372. For a time he lived there with his Bajoran wife Korena.

Jake kept photos of himself with his father, and his father's Saltah'na clock in the living room, which also had a fireplace.

On a stormy night in 2450, Melanie found her way to the house to track down Sisko and ask about why he stopped writing. (DS9: "The Visitor")

Background information

Jake's House

John Eaves drawing of Jake's house

The script for "The Visitor" describes Jake's House as being "isolated, set off in swampy Louisiana bayou country. It's a two-story modern design that harks back to Southern architectural traditions; it has a cluttered feel, stacks of BOOKS and papers – the home of a man who lives alone…" [1]

John Eaves drew up a design for the exterior of the house that was not included in the episode, but was featured in the DS9 Season 4 DVD special features. Eaves said he based the design on The Haunted Mansion in Disneyland.