Paradis House

Oral tradition says Amos Webb built this house as a wedding gift for his daughter Sara when she married Dr. Edward Heard, though the couple bought the lot for $1,200. Webb's own house is outside town. The town credits him, an early settler of the parish, with Arlington, built in 1829: a Greek Revival house of brick and frame, two stories, with a one-bay, three-story front porch whose brick columns carry a pedimented dormer. Arlington was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 11, 1982.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Le Vieux Village and the Venus House — 6.0 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 — 28 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

• Steamboat Warehouse — steps away
• Washington Museum — steps away
• Leon Wolff Mercantile — 0.2 mi
• Patriots of the Opelousas Militia — 0.2 mi