Leon Wolff Mercantile

Leon Wolff's store depended on the wagon trade. He built his home on the site of the wagon yard that served the store, and the last wagon was sold in 1952. The building at 202 North Main, which the town dates to about 1852, came to him and his brother Julian, and he rebuilt the store in 1935. It is now the Wolff Banquet and Reception Hall. It sits in the Washington Historic District, whose 200 contributing buildings covered roughly 80 percent of the town when it was listed in 1978.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Le Vieux Village and the Venus House — 5.9 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 — 24 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.
• Atchafalaya Welcome Center — 27 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.
• Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum — 36 mi
  The Angola museum outside the penitentiary gate, opened in 1997 on the history of crime and punishment in Louisiana, on ground where convicts were leased out as what 64 Parishes calls legal slave labor.

More markers nearby

• Washington Museum — steps away
• Steamboat Warehouse — steps away
• Washington — steps away
• Washington School — 0.3 mi