Hotel Frederic

In the 1910s the Patout Brothers' letterhead promised guests every modern improvement: electric lights, steam heat, elevators and a vacuum cleaning system, with every room facing outside. Rooms on the American Plan, meals included, started at $2.50. A coffee shop and a restaurant drew townspeople too, and one regular remembered the building as pink. The hotel came down in the 1970s as part of Operation Impact, a downtown revitalization effort, though a remaining portion was later turned into offices and apartments.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shadows-on-the-Teche — 0.3 mi
  A National Trust site in New Iberia built 1831 to 1834 for sugar planters David and Mary Weeks, now interpreted around the 1,112 people the Weeks family enslaved, among them Charity Polk, Amos, Patty, Isaac and Louisa.
• African American Museum, St. Martinville — 8.0 mi
  A museum in the St. Martinville Cultural Heritage Center on the arrival of Africans in Southwest Louisiana, slavery, the free people of color and Reconstruction, with the fourteen-panel exhibit The Shackles of Memory.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 8.0 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.
• Jungle Gardens and Avery Island — 8.7 mi
  A 170-acre garden and wildfowl refuge on a Gulf Coast salt dome, founded by Edward Avery McIlhenny, on an island that was a Marsh sugar plantation worked by enslaved people before Tabasco and the 1862 salt works.

More markers nearby

• Old City Hall — steps away
• Lieutenant Colonel Francisco Bouligny — steps away
• A Walk of Faith — steps away
• Robert Foligny Broussard — steps away