Good Hope Hall

Masses were once held in the hall. Around 1950 Saint Paul the Apostle Church, described as the area's first Black Catholic parish, built Good Hope Chapel at 301 East Convent Street so the services could move. Saint Paul Parish had served Black Catholics in Freetown-Port Rico and La Place since 1911. The chapel was added to the Lafayette Historic Register as No. 098 on May 15, 2014. Preserving Lafayette says the neighborhood these congregations served predates the incorporation of Vermilionville and includes families of African, Indigenous and Caribbean descent.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vermilionville — 1.2 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.
• Cypress Island Preserve at Lake Martin — 7.0 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 — 13 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 — 13 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

• Martin's Hat Shop — steps away
• Butler's Drug Store / Pharmacie Butler — steps away
• Griffin House — steps away
• Pavy Studio — steps away