Maison Olivier

The man behind the house was Pierre Olivier Duclozel de Vezin, a wealthy Creole, who built it around 1815. Its form, a raised Creole cottage, blends Creole, Caribbean and French influences. The federal listings call it the Acadian House: the National Register listed it on March 30, 1973, and it became a National Historic Landmark on May 30, 1974. It stands in the oldest of Louisiana's state park sites, founded in 1934 and covering about 157 acres. A blacksmith shop is nearby, and a separate c. 1790 Acadian cabin stands on the grounds.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — steps away
  A bayou-side state site on former Attakapas hunting ground, with a raised Creole cottage of about 1815, a reproduction 1800 farmstead and its slave quarters, and the story behind Longfellow's Evangeline.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 1.0 mi
  The Mother Church of the Acadians, founded in 1765 on St. Martin Square in St. Martinville, with a late 1870s Lourdes grotto and, a block away, the Evangeline Oak on Bayou Teche.
• African American Museum, St. Martinville — 1.0 mi
  A museum in the St. Martinville Cultural Heritage Center on the arrival of Africans in Southwest Louisiana, slavery, the free people of color and Reconstruction, with the fourteen-panel exhibit The Shackles of Memory.
• Cypress Island Preserve at Lake Martin — 6.4 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

• Bayou Teche — 0.5 mi
• Attakapa Indian — 1.0 mi
• On This Site Lie Buried Officers of The Attakapas Militia — 1.0 mi
• Evangeline Monument — 1.0 mi