Joffrion-Roy-Luke Home

New Orleans architects Favrot and Livaudais designed this Greek Revival house with Colonial touches for the Marksville attorney J. W. Joffrion, known as Buddy, and the firm left another mark on Avoyelles: the 1916 Thomas A. Lemoine House in Moreauville, listed on the National Register in 1985 as a high-fashion house. The Joffrion House was listed earlier, on August 11, 1982. Both Lemoine houses, the other an 1885 Italianate cottage moved to Hamburg in 1978, were listed on July 18, 1985.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Avoyelles Parish Courthouse: Solomon Northup Marker — 0.2 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 — 1.4 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 — 26 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

• Founding Of Marksville — 0.2 mi
• Solomon Northup, "Twelve Years a Slave" — 0.2 mi
• The First Bowie Knife — 0.3 mi
• Fort De Russy — 0.3 mi