16. New Iberia City Park 20. Frederick Hotel 23. Alice Plantation & 300 Parkview Dr. | New Iberia 910 E. Main St. | New Iberia Bayside Plantation Dave brings Annie, Alafair, and later Old Jeanerette Rd., Hwy. 87 | Jeanerette The Frederick Hotel, while still retaining Bootsie here for crawfish boils, barbecues, traces of its original hotel grandeur, is now an “Just before the drawbridge, I could see Alice picnics and softball games. Home to office complex. The hotel was mentioned in Plantation, built in 1796, and farther on a “Devil’s Pond,” where visitors can feed Sunset Limited. the ducks while enjoying the wildlife. second antebellum home, one that is arguably among the most beautiful in the Deep South.” – The Glass Rainbow 17. Books Along The Teche These private homes can only be viewed from the highway. 106 E. Main St. | New Iberia 21. Episcopal Church Alice Plantation is a 200-plus-year-old home that was of the Epiphany once a bed and breakfast. Bayside is a plantation home The local bookstore where Burke fans can find signed 303 W. Main St. | New Iberia built in 1850 by Francis DuBose Richardson. Look for first editions of the Robicheaux novels as well as other the historical markers. modern bestsellers. Books Along the Teche’s owners, Consecrated in 1858 on land Howard and Lorraine Kingston, are the resident experts donated by plantation owner Harvey Hopkins, it is the oldest church building still in use in on anything and everything James Lee Burke. New Iberia. Dave goes to AA meetings here. Albania Plantation Mentioned in Heaven’s Prisoners. 24. Albania Rd. at LA 182 E. | Jeanerette Clementine Dining & Spirits Used in the filmIn the Electric Mist as a stand-in ’s 18. 113 E. Main St. | New Iberia location for Bayside Plantation, the home was Hometown Literary Festival 22. Spanish Lake built between 1837 and 1842 on 6,500 acres. “I put on my rain hat and walked downtown 117 Spanish Lake Rd. | New Iberia The home is currently owned by Hunt Slonem, the celebrated New York artist who created the 23 in the twilight. Customers here having Spanish Lake was named for the Spanish settlers who cross-hatched pattern of painting. To Loreauville & Lake Fausse Pointe 22 Spanish Lake drinks under the colonnade in front of took up residence along its banks. In 1863, Camp 86 N LEWIS ST 87 Pratt, a Confederate boot camp, was established along To St. Martinville 86 Clementine’s Restaurant, and across the EMILE VERRET RD its borders. Dave and Elrod Sykes, JANE ST Cypremort Point PARKVIEW DR street, at the Goughenheim Bed and DARBY LANE 25. INDEST ST 16 an alcoholic actor, see ghosts of DUPERIER ST 24 FRONT ST 306 Beach Ln. | Cypremort31 Point MARIE ST TECHE ST Breakfast, guests were enjoying the evening 9 Confederate soldiers and General John 15 To Jeanerette

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2 To Delcambre To Jefferson Island Shadows-on-the-Teche 6. St. Peter’s Catholic 12. 317 E. Main St. | New Iberia 1. Iberia Parish Convention Church and Cemetery & Visitors Bureau 108 E. St. Peter St. | New Iberia “I drove down East Main under the arched live 2513 Hwy. 14 | New Iberia St. Peter’s Church was built in 1836 on land donated oaks that spanned the street, toward the Shadows, by the Frederick Duperier family. Church Alley a red brick and white-columned antebellum Start the Dave Robicheaux tour at the between Main Street and St. Peter Street was left open home built in 1831 on Bayou Teche.” official Iberia Parish Welcome Center. to fulfill the donation’s provision that the church be – Cadillac Jukebox visible from the Duperier home (located where Mt. Carmel is Built for a wealthy sugar planter, the Shadows-on-the- today). Dave’s wife Annie was Teche was home to four generations before becoming buried in his family plot at the a National Trust Historic Site. Live oaks draped with cemetery in Heaven’s Prisoners. Burke House Spanish moss cast shadows on the house, gardens 10. and Bayou Teche. Guided tours available. 715 E. Main St. | New Iberia 2. Tabasco® Factory 4. Iberia Parish CourtHouse Hwy. 329 | Avery Island 300 S. Iberia St. | New Iberia “It was a fine house in which to live, P.R. Burke’s Office “But he got both of us fired at the hot- In earlier novels, Dave’s office was located at the Bon Creole cool in the summer and warm in the winter, 13. 7. 223 E. Main St. | New Iberia sauce factory, since the owner couldn’t tell courthouse. He also shared it with Special Agent Rosie 1409 E. St. Peter St. | New Iberia the ceiling—high outfitted with ventilated Gomez in In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead. us apart, when he tried to wash bottles en One of Dave’s local eateries, he could often be found storm shutters, our new veranda a grand “We crossed the drawbridge over Bayou Teche. masse by filling a dozen gunny sacks with here chowing down on shrimp po-boy sandwiches. For place to sit in wooden rockers among our The water was brown and high, the dragonflies instance, in he stops here during a them and weighting them down in the Pegasus Descending potted plants and house pets.” flicked over the lily pads in the sunlight. Close case. This hole-in-the-wall lunch – The Glass Rainbow bayou’s current.” New Iberia Amtrak Station along the banks I could see the armored backs of –The Neon Rain 5. counter has been a favorite of both 402 Washington St. | New Iberia locals and visitors for years. James Lee Burke’s grandfather, Walter Burke, lived here. gars turning in the shade of the cypress trees.” The Avery Island experience allows guests to sample As a youth, Burke visited his grandparents, played along - Heaven’s Prisoners the best Cajun dishes on a TABASCO® Food Tour, “The Amtrak still ran on the Old Southern the banks of the Bayou Teche and fixed in his mind the ® James Lee Burke’s cousin owns and see the TABASCO Factory like never before with an Pacific Roadbed that carried my mother romantic image of New Iberia that pervades his books. operates the law office on Main Street. It is Bastiste, Dave Robicheaux’s friend and employee at his expanded tour, new visitor center and Creole-cottage out to Hollywood in 1946, made up of the East Main Street mentioned in The Glass Rainbow. Behind cafeteria-style restaurant. Jungle Gardens, home 8. fish camp, is modeled on the real Batiste, who worked for same cars from the original Sunset Limited the offices is PJ Allain Waterfront Park and of “Bird City,” founded by E. A. McIlhenny, is a “East Main in New Iberia is Walter Burke when James Lee Burke was growing up. she had ridden in, perhaps with the same Sculptural Garden, which offers a scenic three-mile driving/walking tour around the remains probably one of the most beautiful streets in view of Bayou Teche. of an unusual nursery. desert scenes painted on the walls.” – Sunset Limited the Old South or perhaps the whole country.” – A Stained White Radiance Bayou Teche Museum The and New Orleans Railroad built this single- Century-old oaks surround stately homes in the National Iberia Parish Library 14. 11. 131 E. Main St. | New Iberia Old New Iberia High School story brick, romanesque-style station in 1900. The Register Residential District. New Iberia’s Historic & Grotto of Our Lady 3. & Delta Railroad uses it as its headquarters. now School Days Apartments commercial district won the 2005 Great American Main of Lourdes Visit the Bayou Teche Museum to view the James Lee Burke Amtrak offers tri-weekly train service. ® 415 Center St. | New Iberia Street Award , sponsored by the National Trust for 445 E. Main St. | New Iberia exhibit and see Dave’s Bait Shop as well as memorabilia and Historic Preservation®. a video. The museum also hosts exhibits on “blue dog” artist This building has seen many students pass through George Rodrigue, Iberia Parish’s cultural and industrial history “My office was now located in City Hall, on and the infamous New Iberia Shipwreck. its doors. Dave Robicheaux himself mentioned Bayou Teche, with a grand view of a religious attending the school. It is now assisted living apartments. 9. Teche Motel grotto and wonderful oak trees next to the 1829 E. Main St. | New Iberia city library.” 15. Mt. Carmel now Place Eugenie – The Glass Rainbow 109 Bridge St. | New Iberia Perhaps one of New Iberia’s oldest accommodations, the motel’s motif and character fit into the world of Public park with shrine dedicated to the In Heaven’s Prisoners, Dave and Annie brought Dave Robicheaux like no other. Robicheaux loved Veterans of Foreign Wars from New Iberia Alafair to Mt. Carmel after rescuing her from the neon sign that is still on the property today. Clete who died in the service of the United a plane crash in the Gulf of Mexico. It was National Register also rents a room to live here in the novel Creole the first hospital in New Iberia. The 1850s of Historic Places States of America. The main branch of the Belle. Visitors looking for the authentic Robicheaux Iberia Parish Library system houses the building became a Catholic girls school in Photos by Margaret Melancon experience will not be disappointed. Bunk Johnson Jazz Collection Room. 1872 and was closed in 1985.