The Presbytery

Vermilionville presents this cottage as a presbytere, a priest's quarters of the kind found on early-1800s family farms. The house was built around 1830 by the La Grange family of St. Landry Parish and stood on family property for more than a century. Its builders lifted it on brick piers so air could pass beneath, gave it tall ceilings and a fireplace on an outside wall, and reached the attic by a narrow, steep stair on the deep front porch. It was sold in 1984, moved as an artist's studio and bought by the museum in the late 1980s.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vermilionville — steps away
  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 — 5.7 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 — 12 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 — 12 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

• Attakapas Chapel (Chapelle des Attakapas) — steps away
• Buller House — steps away
• Boucvalt House — steps away
• Acadian House (Maison Acadienne) — steps away