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Conrad Rice Mill & KONRIKO® Company Store Built 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. Savor the As you take a quiet stroll along the Main James Lee Burke Burke Street area, centuries-old live oaks and lush Experience Award-winning author James Lee Burke Burke landscapes line the streets, creating a beautiful spent summers with relatives in the Burke home backdrop for the historic buildings, which house (c.1920s) at 715 East Main Street where he played quaint boutiques, specialty shops, galleries and New Iberia’s historic and fished in Bayou Teche with his cousins that commercial district won the cafés. For its successful revitalization efforts 2005 Great American Main lived in the area. He draws inspiration from New Street Award® sponsored by New Iberia’s Historic Commercial District won a the National Trust for Historic Iberia’s people, culture and landscapes for his Great American Main Street Award® sponsored Preservation® Dave Robicheaux mystery series with many sites by the National Trust for Historic Preservation® on this downtown route featured in his novels. He in 2005. Street signs are in Spanish, French noted “New Iberia has and English celebrating the town’s unique the most beautiful Main heritage. Trilingual historical markers installed Street in the Country.” by the Iberia Cultural Resources Association commemorate significant historic buildings and sites. Enjoy an entertaining walking tour while you savor New Iberia. Shadows-on-the-Teche Bayou Teche Museum Guided tours in this National Trust site located State-of-the-art museum with a permanent collection of artifacts and memorabilia from the at 317 East Main Street paint a picture of life Iberia Parish Convention & Visitors Bureau from its plantation beginnings through the region, centered around the “snake-like” curves 2513 Hwy 14, New Iberia, LA 70560 of the Bayou Teche. 888-942-3742 • IberiaTravel.com earliest days of the Civil Rights movement. L OUIS IANA Welcome Center open Monday through Saturday. CityOfNewIberia.com 1. 317 EAST MAIN STREET - SHADOWS ON THE TECHE c. 1834 18. 109 BRIDGE STREET - THE OLD MT. CARMEL ACADEMY c. 1826 34. 11 FISHER ALLEY - TECHE WHOLESALE 50. 232 WEST MAIN STREET - STEINBERG FURS c. 1880* 56. 301 WEST ST. PETER STREET - FRANK’S TEA & SPICE c. 1898 Built as a townhouse for David Weeks, in 1831· 34, remained in the possession of Built as the home of Henry F. Duperier, it later became a girls’ school operated by the Built in 1920 as a wholesale grocery warehouse for goods transported by steamboat. In 1894 the bottom floor was the office and printing shop of the Weekly Iberian. Later, The Vaccaro-Jennaro Store. the Weeks family until1958, when Weeks Hall, great grandson of David Weeks, Sisters of Mt. Carmel. “James Lee Burke” site. when telephones came to New lberia, the second floor was the telephone exchange. bequeathed it to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. 35. 140 WEST MAIN STREET - CONOCO SERVICE STATION The building originally had a two-story gallery. 57. 120 SOUTH JEFFERSON STREET - THE MAGNOLIAS 19. 115 EAST MAIN STREET - CRYSTAL IMAGE c. 1897 In 1940, the Elks’ Theater occupied this lot. A Conoco Service Station was built here Tradition notes the home was built in 1852 by slaves using local cypress trees. Judge 2. 320 EAST MAIN STREET - THE FONTELIEU HOME A photograph taken of these three buildings in October 1899 shows them to be one 51. 235 WEST MAIN STREET - MAIN MOTORS in 1942. In 1973, the building was renovated for offices. Robert S. Perry resided here in 1880. Originally built as a one-story structure to serve as a railroad office, it was converted building having a uniform façade. This building dates back to the early 1900s. The building served two businesses. 235 into a one-story home. Alphe Fontelieu, Mayor of New lberia in the early 20th century, 36. 143 WEST MAIN STREET - BAYOU ART GALLERY W. Main for years was the Chevrolet dealership, then the Dodge dealership until after 58. 119 JEFFERSON STREET - THE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH c. 1891* added the second story. 20. 113 EAST MAIN STREET - PROVOST’S CAFÉ* Dates from the 1870s, this block did not burn in the fire of 1899 and was an important WWll. 233 W. Main St. was a hardware store. The façade of this building probably dates from the 1940s. “James Lee Burke” site. commercial part of Main Street because it was located across the street from the A one-story stucco-over-masonry Italian Renaissance style building with a two-story 52. 303 WEST MAIN STREET - CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY 3. 314 EAST MAIN STREET - THE KOCH HOUSE courthouse and city hall. * front corner bell tower. Erected in 1891, the original Gothic Revival building suffered The original structure dates from the 1890s. 21. 111 & 112 EAST MAIN STREET - WORMSER’S DEPARTMENT STORE* The original building was built in the winter of 1857-1858 of cypress and bricks made serious fire damage to its spire, slate roof, and underlying roof structure. Two commercial buildings which are connected on the interior. Both buildings are 37. 144 WEST MAIN STREET - OFFICE BUILDING by slaves with clay taken from the banks of the Bayou Teche.”James Lee Burke” site. 4. 300 EAST MAIN STREET - THE OLD POST OFFICE c. 1903* single story and in the Modernistic taste. Both façades are fairly well preserved from 59. CORNER OF FRENCH & WASHINGTON STREETS Built after the demolition of the Elks’ Theater in 1941. 53. 502 & 505 JANE STREET One-story Georgian Revival building with arched fenestration and a columnar cupola. their 1930s remodeling. - ST. PETER’S CEMETERY c. 1838 38. 146 WEST MAIN STREET - EVANGELINE LIFE INSURANCE - LUTZENBERGER FOUNDRY c. 1892 & PATTERN SHOP BUILDING 5. 109 WEEKS STREET - TEMPLE GATES OF PRAYER c. 1903* 22. 110 EAST MAIN STREET - ACKAL’S DEPARTMENT STORE* The Lutzenberger Foundry is composed of two commercial industrial buildings, the Established as a Catholic Cemetery on March 24, 1838. Previously, residents were Built in the 1940s this building was recently restored with an upper story gallery. It is buried on their own family grounds. Jewish Synagogue whose congregation was organized in 1897. One-story brick Upper façade remains the same as when it was built at the beginning of the century. now used for retail and professional office space. foundry and machine shop building and the pattern shop building. They are located vaguely Romanesque building with half-timbered gable. Listed on the National Lower half was altered in the 1930s. across the street from one another on the banks of Bayou Teche. 60. 300 IBERIA STREET. - IBERIA PARISH COURTHOUSE BUILDING Register of Historic Places. 39. 145B WEST MAIN STREET - HANDLEMAN’S c. 1890s 23. 103, 105, 107 EAST MAIN STREET - THE DUPERIER BLOCK* 54. 402 WEST WASHINGTON STREET The building housed a department store known as Noah’s Ark. The first floor level of The first courthouse was leased from Louis Miguez by Police Jury President Daniel 6. 223 EAST MAIN STREET - THE PASCAL BUILDING c. 1889* - MISSOURI PACIFIC FREIGHT DEPOT c. 1900 These three buildings, built by a member of the Duperier family after the fire of 1870, the façade has been altered several times for various commercial uses. Brickwork D. Avery for $800 per year. In 1870, it was destroyed by a large fire that engulfed Built by Auguste Pascal for use by Leon Dreyfus as a hardware store. Second story are some of the oldest buildings on Main Street. 107 is historically significant in that Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Southern Pacific Railroad the entire northern section of Main Street. The Iberia Parish Council authorized was probably done by the Etie brothers. Depot (c.1900) is a single-story brick structure with Romanesque Revival details. It is façade dates from the time of construction and bears the artisan signature of Alfred it served for a time as the lberia Parish Courthouse before the 1884 courthouse was construction of a three-story Art Deco style courthouse building, which was completed located adjacent to the Louisiana and Delta railroad tracks. and Aristide Etie, New lberia brickmasons at the turn of the century. built in the first block of West Main. 40. I50 WEST MAIN STREET - MCMAHON FURNITURE CO. in 1940. “James Lee Burke” site. 7. 221 EAST MAIN STREET - LEBLANC & BROUSSARD BULDING c.1912* 24. 104 EAST MAIN STREET - CREIM’S c.1893 Built in 1890 by Richard McMahon for a furniture store. Later it was the Dauterive 55. 333 WEST ST. PETER STREET - AUGUSTE ERATH BUILDING c. 1884 Furniture Co. and the Davis Furniture Co. The façade was altered in the 1950s. 61. 309 ANN STREET - CONRAD RICE MILL c. 1912 Constructed to house the Ford agency, the façade of the building is much as it was The lower façade of this building has been altered since the 1899 fire, but it is much A two-story brick combination residence and business. Stylistically, it is transitional late Greek Revival/ltalianate. Prominently located on a corner in downtown New Built by Philip Conrad Sr., the mill is the oldest operating rice mill in the United States in 1919. as it was in the early 1930s. 41. 145 WEST MAIN STREET - JOHN R. TAYLOR DRUGSTORE c. 1906 lberia, the building is adjacent to the city’s railroad corridor. and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 8. 109 NORTH WEEKS STREET - FORD WAREHOUSE/CITY TIMELINE c. 1912 25. 100 EAST MAIN STREET - BOWAB’S c.

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