Evangeline Bank & Trust Company

Ville Platte's bank building is also its most praised architecture. The nomination that put it on the National Register, dated spring 2005, called the two-story Classical Revival block at 342 West Main the town's most impressive architectural landmark, and the listing followed on September 1, 2005. Sources differ on whether the masonry building went up in 1913 or 1914. It now serves as City Hall, so one set of walls holds two histories, the bank's and the town's.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Le Vieux Village and the Venus House — 16 mi
  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 — 16 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.

More markers nearby

• Ville Platte — steps away
• Fred's Lounge — 9.4 mi
• Calvary Baptist Church — 9.6 mi
• Plaisance School — 9.9 mi