Pavy Studio

The building at Gordon and Clinton streets led several lives before Francis X. Pavy made it his studio. The Advocate reported that it was a residence in the 1920s, a furniture and gift store in the 1950s, a food co-op in the hippie era, then a trophy shop and a used office furniture store. Pavy, born in Lafayette on March 2, 1954, studied under Elemore Morgan Jr. and took a sculpture degree at the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1976. His paintings use zydeco instruments and rural Southern architecture, and a retrospective in 2011 marked 35 years of work.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vermilionville — 1.2 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 — 6.9 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.
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — 13 mi
  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 — 13 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.

More markers nearby

• Bendel Housekeeper's Home — steps away
• Welcome to Freetown / Bienvenue à Freetown — steps away
• Butler's Drug Store / Pharmacie Butler — steps away
• Good Hope Hall — steps away