Hypolite Bordelon House

This cypress-and-pine house is built with bousillage, walls of mud and moss, and has an unusual double-pitched roof. Wikipedia dates it to about 1825 and says it was most probably built by Hypolite's father, Valerie Bordelon, a grandson of Laurent Bordelon, a native of Le Havre who came to Louisiana before 1730 as a Company of the Indies employee. The house was moved to this site and restored, and it reached the National Register on October 16, 1980. A Bordelon descendant writes that her great-grandfather once owned it. It now serves as the tourism center.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Avoyelles Parish Courthouse: Solomon Northup Marker — 0.4 mi
  The Marksville courthouse where Solomon Northup was freed in January 1853, with a marker and a 2026 bronze that shows him rising from the mud.
• Tunica-Biloxi Museum — 1.2 mi
  The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana's own museum at Marksville, built around the Tunica Treasure that the tribe won back in court.
• Epps House: Solomon Northup's Gateway to Freedom — 21 mi
  The Creole cottage Solomon Northup helped build for the man who enslaved him, moved twice and now a small museum on the LSU Alexandria campus.
• Arna Bontemps African American Museum — 25 mi
  The restored Alexandria house where the Harlem Renaissance writer Arna Bontemps was born in 1902, on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.

More markers nearby

• German Prisoner of War Camp — steps away
• Fort De Russy — 0.4 mi
• Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin — 0.4 mi
• The First Bowie Knife — 0.4 mi