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The Main Street Historic District is a historic district located along East Main Street in Broussard, Louisiana, United States. [2] The district comprises five contributing properties dating from c.1890 to c.1910: [2]
The Comeaux House is a historic house located at 101 East 2nd Street in Broussard, Louisiana, United States.. Built in c.1908 by Edmond Comeaux and his wife Cecile St. Julien Comeaux, the house is a Queen Anne-Colonial Revival style residence with semi-octagonal bay at each end of the facade, a semi-octagonal Doric front gallery and a corner turret.
Broussard was founded in 1884. It was named after Valsin Broussard, a prominent local merchant, who formed the first vigilante committee when his own store was robbed. He was a direct descendant of Joseph Broussard de Beausoleil, one of the first 200 Acadians to arrive in Louisiana on February 27, 1765, aboard the Santo Domingo. [5]
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The Valsin Broussard House is a historic house located at 408 West Main Street in Broussard, Louisiana. Built c.1876 by Valsin Broussard, founder of the town of Broussard , the house is the oldest remaining residence in the town.
The Martial Billeaud Jr. House is a historic house located at 118 North Morgan Avenue in Broussard, Louisiana. Built in 1893, the house is a large Queen Anne style frame cottage with a projecting bay with a mansard roof. It's the only example of Second Empire architecture in Lafayette Parish. [2]
The Billeaud House is a historic house located at 303 West Main Street in Broussard, Louisiana. Built in c.1907 by Charles Billeaud, the house is a Queen Anne-Colonial Revival style residence with an Ionic front gallery and a semi-octagonal bay. The structure has large decorated dormers on three sides. [2]
The new factory was constructed at a cost of $50,000 and had a daily capacity of four hundred tons of cane. Area sugar planters had a local mill for their product. The Billeaud Sugar Mill brought a tremendous wave of prosperity to Broussard, which coincided with the previously mentioned sugar boom in southern Louisiana as a whole.