Doctor's Office

The doctor here took patients' payment in goods or labor and ordered a car by mail from Sears. The catalog cars Sears sold were motor buggies, offered from 1908 to 1912 at prices from $325 to $475. Under the floorboards sat a two-cylinder, air-cooled engine started with a front hand crank, and the catalog claimed a top speed of 25 miles per hour. Buyers got a ten-day trial. Dr. Ertemon Lafleur practiced until his death in 1946; his son, Dr. N. C. Lafleur, worked in the building until 1985.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Le Vieux Village and the Venus House — steps away
  A heritage park in Opelousas built around the Venus House of about 1791, the home of a free Creole woman of color, Marie Francois Venus, with an old schoolhouse, Methodist church and the visitor center's zydeco music exhibit.
• Prairie Acadian Cultural Center — 21 mi
  A National Park Service center in Eunice on the Cajun prairie, with exhibits on the Acadians who settled the prairies, a Courir de Mardi Gras display, free music and cooking demonstrations, and the shuttered Liberty Theatre nearby.
• Vermilionville — 22 mi
  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.
• Atchafalaya Welcome Center — 25 mi
  A state welcome center inside the Atchafalaya Basin, the nation's largest river swamp, with exhibits on Basin history and life, a film, a crawfishing boat and French-speaking staff.

More markers nearby

• Rodney Milburn — steps away
• J.S. Clark High School — steps away
• The Opelousas Post Militia of 1779 — steps away
• Opelousas Firsts and Famous / Hall of Fame — steps away