Buller House

Joseph Marcel Buhler was born in Louisiana around 1781, the son of Johan Buhler of Germany and Marie Willen, also recorded as Watson, of Ireland. His family held land at Prairie Ronde near Ville Platte by right of settlement and occupancy, a claim earned by living on and working the ground, and they kept the cottage built around 1807 until the late 1970s. The house moved to Lafayette in 1988, and the city's historic register listed it in 2005. The house is now called Buller, though the family name was Buhler.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vermilionville — steps away
  A living-history village of about 23 acres on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, opened in 1990 to interpret the Native peoples, Acadians, Creoles and people of African descent of the Attakapas region.
• Cypress Island Preserve at Lake Martin — 5.7 mi
  Nearly 10,000 acres of bottomland hardwood and cypress-tupelo swamp at the south end of Lake Martin, owned by The Nature Conservancy, with a boardwalk and a rookery of egrets, spoonbills and alligators.
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — 12 mi
  A bayou-side state site on former Attakapas hunting ground, with a raised Creole cottage of about 1815, a reproduction 1800 farmstead and its slave quarters, and the story behind Longfellow's Evangeline.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 12 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.

More markers nearby

• Trappers Cabin & Boat Shed — steps away
• The Presbytery — steps away
• Mouton Kitchen (La Cuisine de Maison Mouton) — steps away
• Attakapas Chapel (Chapelle des Attakapas) — steps away