St. Cecilia School

St. Cecilia School is a three-story Italianate brick building with arched windows and a large front dormer, built in 1909 at 302 West Main Street. It is one of ten Broussard buildings listed individually on the National Register on March 14, 1983, the same year the marker went up. HMdb's page notes add that the high school department closed in 1964 under a diocesan order to consolidate Catholic high schools in Lafayette Parish, and that the Sisters of Divine Providence ran the school until 1974.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vermilionville — 4.9 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 — 5.4 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.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 8.4 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 — 8.5 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.

More markers nearby

• Valsin House — steps away
• City of Broussard — 0.5 mi
• Historic Downtown Broussard — 0.7 mi
• Valsin Broussard — 0.7 mi