Griffin House

Harry L. Griffin was born in 1883 and died in 1967. He studied at West Virginia University and took graduate degrees at the University of Chicago, then joined the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute faculty in 1912 to teach history and political science. He was dean of the College of Liberal Arts from 1921 to 1953, and Griffin Hall bears his name. He wrote the script for the 1923 Lafayette Parish Centennial Pageant and was active in the Rotary Club. His history of the Attakapas Country appeared in 1959, and his papers cover 1905 to 1964.

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

• Good Hope Hall — steps away
• Martin's Hat Shop — steps away
• Dr. Edwin L. Stephens — steps away
• 1898-1899 (ULL Walk of Honor) — 0.2 mi