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136 – 100 W. Bellevue Street Located across from the courthouse, between Market and Court streets, this group of commercial office...
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W. Landry St. next to Homére Mouton Law Office This giant live oak tree is over 350 years old and is named in honor of legendary...
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135 W. Landry Street Originally named the Palace Sandwich Shop, this restaurant was established in 1893. The old two-story wood frame...
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120 S. Market St. Originally built as the Christman and Riseman Hardware Store, the building was converted to a movie theater. The original...
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234 S. Court Street Built by Dr. Charles Bercier, a local dentist, this Victorian style building served as a dental office for many years....
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312 S. Court Street Prominent attorney, state representative, and later district judge, Gilbert L. Dupré, the great-grandson of Louisiana...
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405 S. Court Street Built by Dr. Joseph Saizan, this home featured the first indoor bathroom in Opelousas. Restorations and additions...
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410 S. Court Street Built with cypress and pine flooring with lumber from one of the oldest academies in Opelousas, this cottage underwent...
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508 S. Court Street This home was constructed by Dr. Ernest Petitjean. A detail to note is the green ceramic tile roof with each shingle...
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536 S. Court Street This beautiful and spacious Federal Colonial home was built by long-time Opelousas dentist Dr. Gilbert Mistric, son of...
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612 S. Court Street For more than 100 years, this home has been occupied by descendants of Pierre Mistric, who bought the home in 1912 for...
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631 S. Court Street Built by John Thistlethwaite and Charlotte Frere Thistlethwaite when they moved into Opelousas from Macland Plantation...
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711 S. Court Street John Lewis, a prominent Opelousas attorney, built this Victorian home that features a formal living room and dining...
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809 S. Court Street Built by St. Landry Parish Judge William Charles Perrault and his wife Amanda Lastrapes Perrault, this house contains a...
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812 S. Court Street Built by former Opelousas Postmaster J.P. Trosclair in the 1880s, this Victorian style home includes five bedrooms, a...
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819 S. Court Street Built by attorney W.C. Perrault, this home was constructed with cypress weatherboard. The surrounding block of...
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119 W. Jefferson Street Walton McCain, a former mayor of Basile, Louisiana, purchased this home and an additional 500 acres stretching west...
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908 S. Market Street Opelousas physician Dr. William C. Littell, who practiced in Opelousas from the late 1930s, and for several decades,...
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431 S. Market Street Built by Harvey Wier, the home is constructed with stone brought by train from West Texas and is reminiscent of a...
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424 S. Market Street This cypress and pine house is designed in the Georgian Cottage architectural style. The home is furnished with...
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330 S. Market Street This family home was built around the turn of the century for Mr. and Mrs. Phil L. Asher. Asher was an entrepreneur...
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322 S. Market Street This Victorian home has been renovated throughout the years and now serves as a law office....
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313 S. Market Street The L. Austin Fontenot, Sr. family purchased this lovely Queen Anne Revival home in 1918 from J. Austin Perkins. The...
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130 W. Vine Street Edward Veazie built this Queen Anne Victorian style home in 1905 at a cost of $5,000.00. His daughter Marie Aline, and...
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119 W. Vine Street Dr. Felix Octave Pavy and his wife, Fannie Estilette Dupré Pavy, built this home on property donated to Fannie by her...
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332 W. Landry Street Opelousas businessman Joseph Lassalle, who migrated to the town from Canada in 1872, built this Victorian home for his...
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232 S. Liberty Street This Neoclassical style home was a popular design in the early part of the 20th century. The style used decorative...
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306 S. Liberty Street St. Landry Parish Sheriff Marion L. Swords, who was killed in July 1916 by the fugitive Helaire Carriere, built this...
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209 N. Liberty Street This Colonial Revival style home made of cypress wood was built at a cost of $50,000 for Dr. Sidney J. Rozas and his...
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219 N. Liberty Street Built at the turn-of-the 20th century, this house has been owned by different family through the years including the...
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233 W. Grolee Street Originally located in Rapides Parish, the home is constructed of pine and cypress and is furnished with English and...
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326 W. Bellevue Street The First Baptist Church of Opelousas was founded November 6, 1880. Following a series of revival services held at...
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519 N. Court Street Constructed solely of Louisiana cypress, this bungalow style home features five bedrooms, a grand foyer and formal...
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509 N. Court Street Built by the Alex Sandoz family, this lovely home located on the corner of Bloch and Court streets was restored in the...
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125 W. Littell Street Located on the corner of Court and Littell streets, this house became the property of the DeLaRue family by an act of...
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124 W. Grolee Street One of the oldest home in Opelousas, Etienne Fouillade built this French Creole house for Marguerite Chretien in 1821....
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127 E. Grolee Street This building, built by J.B. Sandoz, was the first three story building in Opelousas. Over the years, this building...
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217 N. Main Street This building, located on the corner of Grolee and Main streets, was the business and residence of J.C. “Kossuth”...
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214 N. Main Street Opelousas merchant Pascal Delbueno had this building constructed to use for his grocery store. Later it became the site...
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105 N. Main Street This corner played an important role in the commercial history of the town. Known as Bloch corner, the store of Joseph...
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116 N. Union Street One of the earliest fire companies in Louisiana, Hope, Hook and Ladder was organized in 1871. In 1901, a wood...
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413 N. Main Street This bungalow house was built for $3,000. The location of this home was in convenient walking distance to the passenger...
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411 N. Union Street Sidney Sandoz, Sr., the son of Jacques Sandoz who founded J.B. Sandoz Hardware Store, built this lovely home on the...
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312 N. Main St. This is the second oldest business in Opelousas still in operation. The store began as a blacksmith shop owned and operated...
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East Grolee Street This section of brick sidewalks date back to 1838. The bricks and those on Court and Bellevue streets, are the only...
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441 E. Grolee Street This summer cottage was built by Celestine Chachere Brooks, the widow of Tom Brooks. Over the years, it has been owned...
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430 E. Grolee Street The Lupo family purchased this building in 1915. The family added the store front a short time later. The building...
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610 E. Grolee Street This was the home of the Mornhinveg family for many years. It was built extremely high off the ground adding for...
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619 E. Grolee Street The simply cottage style home has beautiful interior woodwork and cut glass window panels along the top of the...
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626 E. Grolee Street Built of cypress by Opelousas attorney Peyton R. Sandoz for his wife and eight children, the home has changed hands...
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701 E. Grolee Street This lovely Victorian cottage was built by Jim Chachere. It is one of the oldest Victorian cottages in the area....
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741 E. Grolee Street Also called Maison Rose, all of the home’s furnishings pre-date the house. The floors are pine and the woodwork is...
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704 E. North Street Dr. F. J. Pulford, a noted Opelousas dentist who practiced from 1891 until the 1920s, built this estate. Dr. Pulford...
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629 E. Bellevue Street This striking restrained Greek Revival and Italianate style home is made of cypress on three foot, six inch raised...
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515 E. Bellevue Street Opelousas is known as the “Cradle of Louisiana Methodism.” Missionary Elisha W. Bowman established the Methodist...
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427 E. Bellevue Street Known as prominent Acadiana merchants, this was once the home of the Anthony Abdalla family. The home is constructed...
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420 E. Bellevue Street Built by Antoine Christman for his wife, the former Malvina Bengueral, the home later became occupied by Fannie...
