The Pellerin-Chauffe House

Surveyors preparing the National Register nomination in 1984 counted about 89 late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century houses in Breaux Bridge and picked six as town landmarks. This is the showiest of them. Edmond Pellerin is credited as builder and Emile Bergeron as carpenter. It is a one-and-a-half-story Queen Anne Revival cottage with Eastlake details: scroll-sawn trim, brackets, a stained-glass window in the front gable and a gallery that turns a 45-degree corner. The cistern, well house and barns out back survive too, so it still reads as a working homestead.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cypress Island Preserve at Lake Martin — 4.0 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.
• Vermilionville — 7.4 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.
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — 9.2 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 — 9.9 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

• The Valery Thibodeaux House — 1.1 mi
• Birthplace of Bishop Jules Jeanmard — 1.4 mi
• Pont Breaux, Louisiane — 1.4 mi
• Breaux Bridge, Louisiana / Pont de Breaux, Louisiane — 1.4 mi