James Lee Burke Burke Award-winning author James Lee Burke Burke spent summers with relatives in the Burke home (c.1920s) at 715 East Main Street where he played and fished in Bayou Teche with his cousins that lived in the area. He draws inspiration from New Iberia’s people, culture and landscapes for his Dave Robicheaux mystery series with many sites on this downtown route featured in his novels. He noted “New Iberia has the most beautiful Main Street in the Country.”

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Conrad Rice Mill & KONRIKO® Company StoreBuilt in 1912, America’s oldest operating rice mill is on the National Register of Historic Places. The store offers a mill tour, film of the Acadians, KONRIKO® products, crafts, and specialty food items.

As you take a quiet stroll along the Main Street area, centuries-old live oaks and lush landscapes line the streets, creating a beautiful backdrop for the historic buildings, which house quaint boutiques, specialty shops, galleries and cafés. For its successful revitalization efforts New Iberia’s Historic Commercial District won a Great American Main Street Award® sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation® in 2005. Street signs are in Spanish, French and English celebrating the town’s unique heritage. Trilingual historical markers installed by the Iberia Cultural Resources Association commemorate significant historic buildings and sites. Enjoy an entertaining walking tour while you savor New Iberia.

Bayou Teche MuseumState-of-the-art museum with a permanent collection of artifacts and memorabilia from the region, centered around the “snake-like” curves of the Bayou Teche.

New Iberia’s historiccommercial district won the2005 Great American MainStreet Award® sponsored bythe National Trust for HistoricPreservation®

Iberia Parish Convention & Visitors Bureau2513 Hwy 14, New Iberia, LA 70560

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Shadows-on-the-TecheGuided tours in this National Trust site located at 317 East Main Street paint a picture of life from its plantation beginnings through the earliest days of the Civil Rights movement.

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50. 232 WEST MAIN STREET - STEINBERG FURS c. 1880*In 1894 the bottom floor was the office and printing shop of the Weekly Iberian. Later, when telephones came to New lberia, the second floor was the telephone exchange. The building originally had a two-story gallery.

51. 235 WEST MAIN STREET - MAIN MOTORSThis building dates back to the early 1900s. The building served two businesses. 235 W. Main for years was the Chevrolet dealership, then the Dodge dealership until after WWll. 233 W. Main St. was a hardware store.

52. 303 WEST MAIN STREET - CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY*The original building was built in the winter of 1857-1858 of cypress and bricks made by slaves with clay taken from the banks of the Bayou Teche.”James Lee Burke” site.

53. 502 & 505 JANE STREET - LUTZENBERGER FOUNDRY c. 1892 & PATTERN SHOP BUILDING

The Lutzenberger Foundry is composed of two commercial industrial buildings, thefoundry and machine shop building and the pattern shop building. They are locatedacross the street from one another on the banks of Bayou Teche.

54. 402 WEST WASHINGTON STREET - MISSOURI PACIFIC FREIGHT DEPOT c. 1900

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Southern Pacific Railroad Depot (c.1900) is a single-story brick structure with Romanesque Revival details. It is located adjacent to the Louisiana and Delta railroad tracks.

55. 333 WEST ST. PETER STREET - AUGUSTE ERATH BUILDING c. 1884A two-story brick combination residence and business. Stylistically, it is transitional late Greek Revival/ltalianate. Prominently located on a corner in downtown New lberia, the building is adjacent to the city’s railroad corridor.

56. 301 WEST ST. PETER STREET - FRANK’S TEA & SPICE c. 1898The Vaccaro-Jennaro Store.

57. 120 SOUTH JEFFERSON STREET - THE MAGNOLIASTradition notes the home was built in 1852 by slaves using local cypress trees. Judge Robert S. Perry resided here in 1880.

58. 119 JEFFERSON STREET - THE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH c. 1891*A one-story stucco-over-masonry Italian Renaissance style building with a two-story front corner bell tower. Erected in 1891, the original Gothic Revival building suffered serious fire damage to its spire, slate roof, and underlying roof structure.

59. CORNER OF FRENCH & WASHINGTON STREETS - ST. PETER’S CEMETERY c. 1838

Established as a Catholic Cemetery on March 24, 1838. Previously, residents were buried on their own family grounds.

60. 300 IBERIA STREET. - IBERIA PARISH COURTHOUSE BUILDINGThe first courthouse was leased from Louis Miguez by Police Jury President Daniel D. Avery for $800 per year. In 1870, it was destroyed by a large fire that engulfed the entire northern section of Main Street. The Iberia Parish Council authorized construction of a three-story Art Deco style courthouse building, which was completedin 1940. “James Lee Burke” site.

61. 309 ANN STREET - CONRAD RICE MILL c. 1912Built by Philip Conrad Sr., the mill is the oldest operating rice mill in the United Statesand listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

1. 317 EAST MAIN STREET - SHADOWS ON THE TECHE c. 1834Built as a townhouse for David Weeks, in 1831· 34, remained in the possession of the Weeks family until1958, when Weeks Hall, great grandson of David Weeks, bequeathed it to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

2. 320 EAST MAIN STREET - THE FONTELIEU HOMEOriginally built as a one-story structure to serve as a railroad office, it was convertedinto a one-story home. Alphe Fontelieu, Mayor of New lberia in the early 20th century,added the second story.

3. 314 EAST MAIN STREET - THE KOCH HOUSEThe original structure dates from the 1890s.

4. 300 EAST MAIN STREET - THE OLD POST OFFICE c. 1903*One-story Georgian Revival building with arched fenestration and a columnar cupola.

5. 109 WEEKS STREET - TEMPLE GATES OF PRAYER c. 1903*Jewish Synagogue whose congregation was organized in 1897. One-story brick vaguely Romanesque building with half-timbered gable. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

6. 223 EAST MAIN STREET - THE PASCAL BUILDING c. 1889*Built by Auguste Pascal for use by Leon Dreyfus as a hardware store. Second story façade dates from the time of construction and bears the artisan signature of Alfred and Aristide Etie, New lberia brickmasons at the turn of the century.

7. 221 EAST MAIN STREET - LEBLANC & BROUSSARD BULDING c.1912*Constructed to house the Ford agency, the façade of the building is much as it was in 1919.

8. 109 NORTH WEEKS STREET - FORD WAREHOUSE/CITY TIMELINE c. 1912Warehouse and service garage for the Ford agency. Location of the City of NewIberia’s Timeline and Bayou Teche Boardwalk.

9. 210 EAST MAIN STREET - THE BAZUS BUILDINGSeen in photos from 1902, it first served as a hotel. The upper façade is much the same as when built, except that the second-story gallery has been removed.

10. 211 EAST MAIN STREET - THE MURRAY BUILDING c. 1895Leased by several businesses since 1895, the present façade dates from 1985.

11. 204 & 206 EAST MAIN STREET - THE LEBOURGEOIS BLOCKThese are three old buildings probably dating from the late 1880s. A picture taken in 1895 shows the buildings, then known as the Segura Block. The buildings survived the fire of 1899 even though those behind them burned.

12. 122 JULIA STREET - CARRIAGE HOUSE c. 1899Formerly a harness shop, repository stables, and an undertaking establishment, now considered one of the oldest group of brick buildings.

13. 121 JULIA STREET - DAUTERIVE UNDERTAKING PARLOR c. 1899Re-built after the fire of 1899.

14. 133 EAST MAIN STREET c. 1892*Photographs of the building dating back to 1895. The second story and pediment brickwork are some of the finest examples of the artistry of Aristide and Alfred Etie, brickmasons.

15. 131 EAST MAIN STREET - THE OLD SPORTS CENTER*Both 129 & 131 E. Main were originally built as a large wholesale grocery building that was partitioned in the late 1930s to create two buildings.

16. 129 EAST MAIN STREET - THE EVANGELINE THEATER*The Sliman Theater for the Performing Arts. The Evangeline Theater started its life as a wholesale grocery building in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Thebuilding gained its current Art Deco façade in 1929 when it was remodeled for a movie house. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

17. 11 BRIDGE STREET - THE DAILY IBERIAN, OLD NEWSPAPER OFFICE

18. 109 BRIDGE STREET - THE OLD MT. CARMEL ACADEMY c. 1826Built as the home of Henry F. Duperier, it later became a girls’ school operated by the Sisters of Mt. Carmel. “James Lee Burke” site.

19. 115 EAST MAIN STREET - CRYSTAL IMAGE c. 1897A photograph taken of these three buildings in October 1899 shows them to be one building having a uniform façade.

20. 113 EAST MAIN STREET - PROVOST’S CAFÉ*The façade of this building probably dates from the 1940s. “James Lee Burke” site.

21. 111 & 112 EAST MAIN STREET - WORMSER’S DEPARTMENT STORE*Two commercial buildings which are connected on the interior. Both buildings are single story and in the Modernistic taste. Both façades are fairly well preserved fromtheir 1930s remodeling.

22. 110 EAST MAIN STREET - ACKAL’S DEPARTMENT STORE*Upper façade remains the same as when it was built at the beginning of the century. Lower half was altered in the 1930s.

23. 103, 105, 107 EAST MAIN STREET - THE DUPERIER BLOCK*These three buildings, built by a member of the Duperier family after the fire of 1870, are some of the oldest buildings on Main Street. 107 is historically significant in that it served for a time as the lberia Parish Courthouse before the 1884 courthouse was built in the first block of West Main.

24. 104 EAST MAIN STREET - CREIM’S c.1893The lower façade of this building has been altered since the 1899 fire, but it is much as it was in the early 1930s.

25. 100 EAST MAIN STREET - BOWAB’S c. 1893*After the fire of 1899, the exterior walls of this building remained standing and the structure was rebuilt on those walls. The ornamentation is original.

26. 101 EAST MAIN STREET - THE RENOUDET BUILDINGBuilt by Octave Renoudet in the fall of 1898 as a hardware store.

27. 126 IBERIA STREET - THE ESSANEE THEATER*New Iberia’s last downtown theatre opened in November 1937 and closed in 1985 until recent renovations. It is now home to the Iberia Performing Arts League.Note: every building on the south side of Main Street between Iberia and Julia Streets was built after the fire of October 1899. Most of the block was rebuilt in 1900 with the remaining construction in 1901.

28. 108 EAST ST. PETER STREET - ST. PETER’S CATHOLIC CHURCHThe first church was built in 1836 on land donated by the Frederick Duperier family.The current site is the third building, built in 1953. “James Lee Burke” site.

29. 101 WEST MAIN STREET - THE GOUGENHEIM BUILDING c. 1893*Built by Charles Gougenheim, it served as the fire break in the 1899 fire because it had brick walls and a tin roof that could not burn. In the 1940s, the upper floor served as the Elks Lodge.

30. 105 WEST MAIN STREET - THE MODEL COMPANY BUILDINGRemodeled about the turn of the century, the brickwork on the upper façade bears thehallmark of the Etie brothers.

31. 109 WEST MAIN STREET – VICTOR’S CAFETERIAVictor’s is famous because Dave Robicheaux eats here. In the early 1900s, the land was owned by Charles Gougenheim. The building has been restored to its 1930s appearance. “James Lee Burke” site.

32. 119 WEST MAIN STREET - PEOPLE’S NATIONAL BANKBuilding dates from 1911. The façade has remained basically untouched sinceconstruction.

33. 102 WEST MAIN STREET - BOULIGNY PLAZAThe location of a bronze bust of Lt. Col. Francisco Bouligny who established Nueva lberia in 1779.

34. 11 FISHER ALLEY - TECHE WHOLESALEBuilt in 1920 as a wholesale grocery warehouse for goods transported by steamboat.

35. 140 WEST MAIN STREET - CONOCO SERVICE STATIONIn 1940, the Elks’ Theater occupied this lot. A Conoco Service Station was built herein 1942. In 1973, the building was renovated for offices.

36. 143 WEST MAIN STREET - BAYOU ART GALLERYDates from the 1870s, this block did not burn in the fire of 1899 and was an important commercial part of Main Street because it was located across the street from the courthouse and city hall.

37. 144 WEST MAIN STREET - OFFICE BUILDINGBuilt after the demolition of the Elks’ Theater in 1941.

38. 146 WEST MAIN STREET - EVANGELINE LIFE INSURANCEBuilt in the 1940s this building was recently restored with an upper story gallery. It is now used for retail and professional office space.

39. 145B WEST MAIN STREET - HANDLEMAN’S c. 1890sThe building housed a department store known as Noah’s Ark. The first floor level of the façade has been altered several times for various commercial uses. Brickwork was probably done by the Etie brothers.

40. I50 WEST MAIN STREET - MCMAHON FURNITURE CO.Built in 1890 by Richard McMahon for a furniture store. Later it was the Dauterive Furniture Co. and the Davis Furniture Co. The façade was altered in the 1950s.

41. 145 WEST MAIN STREET - JOHN R. TAYLOR DRUGSTORE c. 1906A two·story Romanesque Revival style commercial building. The drugstore’s primaryRomanesque feature is the treatment of the second floor windows on its two publicfaces. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

42. 152 WEST MAIN STREET - THE SATTERFIELD BUILDINGBuilt by W.E. Satterfield in 1881, the building originally had an over-the-sidewalk two-story gallery with cast iron decorations. The window to the right of the present entrance was the doorway to stairs to reach the second level.

43. 203 WEST MAIN STREET - THE SPECIALTY STOREThis building is at least 100 years old. A large department store, Mistrot’s, at the tum of the century and beginning of the 1920s, it was The Specialty Store. The façade has been altered to update the appearance of the building.

44. 214 WEST MAIN STREET - RIVIERE’S JEWELRY STOREThis was the site of Jannaro’s Print Shop until about the end of WWII. After the war, theframe structure was demolished and this building and the one at 216 Main were built.

45. 220 WEST MAIN STREET - SLIM’S NEWS STANDBuilding occupied for many years by Slim’s News Stand and later by the Carpenter’s Union.

46. 230 WEST MAIN STREET - IBERIA STEAM LAUNDRYThe lberia Steam Laundry occupied this building in the 1930s, but the building is much older and housed other businesses before the laundry. The façade was altered in 1983 when the Bank of lberia headquarters moved to this location.

47. 209 WEST MAIN STREET - FRANÇOIS BUILDINGThis building was an addition to the Frederick Hotel, which stood in front of it. Construction of this annex dates from 1945 and 1950. “James Lee Burke” site.

48. 225 WEST MAIN STREET - HEBERT HOTEL/IBERIA CAFÉ c. 1930sThe lberia Café and Bar is on the first floor and the Hebert family home is on the second, which later became the Hebert Hotel.

49. 226 WEST MAIN STREET - TWO OAK TREESThe two oaks were planted by Dr. Leonard Smith shortly after he built his home on this site in 1834. After Dr. Smith moved out of his home shortly before the Civil War, it served continuously as a hotel. New Iberia • Avery Island • Jefferson Island • Jeanerette • Loreauville • Delcambre

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