Badin-Roque House

The land changed hands many times. François Frédéric owned it first and sold it in 1827 to Augustin Metoyer, a free Creole of color, who had his holdings appraised in 1840 and gave this parcel to his son Jean Baptiste Augustin Metoyer Jr. In 1856 Auguste Marie Martin bought it, and the house served as a mission convent for the Daughters of the Cross, a French teaching order. An Italian baker, Gristoffe Bussi, bought it in 1867. It passed in 1927 to Zeline Badin Roque, and the St. Augustine Historical Society acquired it in 1979.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Melrose Plantation — 0.5 mi
  The Cane River estate built on land granted to Louis Metoyer, son of Marie Thérèse Coincoin, with the Yucca House and African House, later an artists' retreat; guided tours Thursday to Sunday.
• St. Augustine Church, Isle Brevelle — 0.6 mi
  The parish church at the heart of the Cane River Creoles of color, begun by Augustin Metoyer on his family's land and still holding Mass for the community that grew from Marie Thérèse Coincoin's children.
• Cane River Creole National Historical Park — 4.6 mi
  Oakland and Magnolia, two Cane River cotton plantations kept as they stood, told through the enslaved families who worked them, the 1864 and 1804 freedom seekers and the tenant farmers who stayed into the 1960s.
• Kisatchie National Forest: Longleaf Vista — 8.8 mi
  A free ridge-top overlook and 1.5-mile loop above the 8,700-acre Kisatchie Hills Wilderness on the Longleaf Trail Scenic Byway, in the forest Caroline Dormon helped win in 1930.

More markers nearby

• Yucca House — 0.4 mi
• African House and Clementine Hunter's Murals — 0.4 mi
• Clementine Hunter Home and Studio — 0.4 mi
• Ghana House — 0.4 mi