St. Joseph Co-Cathedral

Inside, the church answers to its architect. Joseph A. Robichaux drew it in pressed brick with stone trim, twin towers and a rose window under a terra cotta roof. A 34-foot baldachin in the apse is carved with symbols of the four Evangelists, and the dome carries the Tree of Knowledge, the Tree of Life and peacocks for the risen Christ. When fire took the earlier church, relics of Saint Valerie survived, and they now rest in a glass sarcophagus. The building joined the National Register in 1986.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — 0.3 mi
  A Jean Lafitte National Historical Park center on Bayou Lafourche with Acadian and bayou-life exhibits, a 200-seat theater and ranger-guided boat tours to the E. D. White house.
• Laurel Valley Village — 2.0 mi
  A sugar plantation's workers' village south of Thibodaux, with cabins of about 1845, shotgun houses, a store and cemetery, and the 1887 strike and massacre in the parish around it.
• E. D. White Historic Site — 5.9 mi
  A National Historic Landmark house of about 1790 on Bayou Lafourche, built by enslaved people and home to two Whites, a governor and a Chief Justice, with an exhibit on the bayou's history.
• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 15 mi
  A Greek Revival sugar plantation house in Houma, worked by 233 enslaved people by 1852, with the last Terrebonne mill's story and a worker's cabin of about 1885.

More markers nearby

• Leonidas Polk — steps away
• Confluence Of Bayous — 0.3 mi
• Moses, Allen Chapel, Calvary Cemeteries — 0.5 mi
• Rienzi Plantation House — 0.6 mi