Le Vieux Presbytère

Father Auguste Eby, a French priest who became pastor of Church Point in 1883, built this house in 1887. Its walls are bousillage, the clay-and-moss infill of Creole Louisiana, inside a one-and-a-half-story frame about forty feet square with a wide porch on all four sides. Priests lived here for at least a century, and the house has been moved twice. The town took its name from the spire of the church, visible across the prairie for miles. Today the old rectory is the town museum, across from the church square.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Le Vieux Village and the Venus House — 12 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 — 14 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 — 19 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 — 23 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.

More markers nearby

• Iry LeJeune — steps away
• Acadia Baptist Academy — 6.5 mi
• Grand Coteau — 9.7 mi
• Academy of the Sacred Heart — 11 mi