Desfossé House

The Desfossé House reached the National Register on April 23, 1976, the earliest building listing in Avoyelles Parish; only the Marksville prehistoric site, listed in 1966, came sooner. Wikipedia's Mansura article dates the house to 1790, while the marker adds a rebuilding around 1850 by Dr. Jules Charles Desfossé, who the marker says was the town's second mayor. The register lists it as the Dr. Jules Charles Des Fosse House. The next building listing in the parish, the Bailey Theatre in Bunkie in 1979, has since been demolished.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tunica-Biloxi Museum — 3.4 mi
  The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana's own museum at Marksville, built around the Tunica Treasure that the tribe won back in court.
• Avoyelles Parish Courthouse: Solomon Northup Marker — 4.6 mi
  The Marksville courthouse where Solomon Northup was freed in January 1853, with a marker and a 2026 bronze that shows him rising from the mud.
• Epps House: Solomon Northup's Gateway to Freedom — 23 mi
  The Creole cottage Solomon Northup helped build for the man who enslaved him, moved twice and now a small museum on the LSU Alexandria campus.
• Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum — 27 mi
  The Angola museum outside the penitentiary gate, opened in 1997 on the history of crime and punishment in Louisiana, on ground where convicts were leased out as what 64 Parishes calls legal slave labor.

More markers nearby

• Mansura — steps away
• Battle of Mansura — 0.5 mi
• Presentation Academy — 3.1 mi
• Tunica-Biloxi Indian Reservation — 3.4 mi