Lawyers Row

The blocks around the courthouse square form the Opelousas Historic District, listed in 1989. It covers about two acres and 18 contributing buildings, built between about 1840 and 1939 in Classical Revival, Greek Revival and Italianate styles. Among them are the Homère Mouton Law Office, from about 1840, and a 19th Century Law Office from about 1845. One Greek Revival law office now at 129 West Landry was numbered 153 in the original paperwork. The 1939 Art Deco courthouse, faced in limestone, has a brushed aluminum spiral staircase inside.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Le Vieux Village and the Venus House — 0.6 mi
  A heritage park in Opelousas built around the Venus House of about 1791, the home of a free Creole woman of color, Marie Francois Venus, with an old schoolhouse, Methodist church and the visitor center's zydeco music exhibit.
• Prairie Acadian Cultural Center — 21 mi
  A National Park Service center in Eunice on the Cajun prairie, with exhibits on the Acadians who settled the prairies, a Courir de Mardi Gras display, free music and cooking demonstrations, and the shuttered Liberty Theatre nearby.
• Vermilionville — 23 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.
• Atchafalaya Welcome Center — 25 mi
  A state welcome center inside the Atchafalaya Basin, the nation's largest river swamp, with exhibits on Basin history and life, a film, a crawfishing boat and French-speaking staff.

More markers nearby

• Delta Theater — steps away
• Opelousas (Capital of Confederate Louisiana) — steps away
• Opelousas — steps away
• Jim Bowie Oak — steps away