Allain's Jewelry Store / Bijouterie Allain / Joyería Allain's

Ford sold the Model T through a network of local dealers, and around 1912 New Iberia's was Leblanc and Broussard, as the downtown district's National Register listing names it. A Model T runabout cost about $590 in 1912 and $345 by 1916, helped along by Ford's moving assembly line, which began on October 7, 1913. The building kept its original Ford emblem and an automotive elevator. After the dealership moved out in 1969, Richard and Anna Schwing Allain bought it, and the jewelry store has been run here by the family for three generations.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shadows-on-the-Teche — steps away
  A National Trust site in New Iberia built 1831 to 1834 for sugar planters David and Mary Weeks, now interpreted around the 1,112 people the Weeks family enslaved, among them Charity Polk, Amos, Patty, Isaac and Louisa.
• African American Museum, St. Martinville — 8.2 mi
  A museum in the St. Martinville Cultural Heritage Center on the arrival of Africans in Southwest Louisiana, slavery, the free people of color and Reconstruction, with the fourteen-panel exhibit The Shackles of Memory.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 8.2 mi
  The Mother Church of the Acadians, founded in 1765 on St. Martin Square in St. Martinville, with a late 1870s Lourdes grotto and, a block away, the Evangeline Oak on Bayou Teche.
• Jungle Gardens and Avery Island — 8.7 mi
  A 170-acre garden and wildfowl refuge on a Gulf Coast salt dome, founded by Edward Avery McIlhenny, on an island that was a Marsh sugar plantation worked by enslaved people before Tabasco and the 1862 salt works.

More markers nearby

• Downtown New Iberia Commercial Historic District — steps away
• George Rodrigue — steps away
• Entry Gate, Shadows-on-the-Teche — steps away
• The Davis Building — steps away