Gordon Square

George Knapp built the Gordon Hotel in 1904, from designs by the architects Favrot and Livaudais: three stories of brick and stucco in the Renaissance Revival style. A 1928 remodel supervised by William T. Nolan added a fourth story in Baroque style, an undulating roof and a corner obelisk, along with a three-story addition on the east side. The building stands at 100 to 110 East Vermilion Street and went onto the National Register on June 25, 1982, a year before the area was rededicated as Gordon Square.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vermilionville — 1.5 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 — 7.2 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

• Lafayette Museum / Le Musée de Lafayette — 0.2 mi
• The Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist — 0.3 mi
• St. John Cathedral Oak — 0.3 mi
• Pavy Studio — 0.3 mi