Hebert House - Brusly, LA
N 30° 23.200 W 091° 14.033
15R E 669687 N 3362955
Nice privately owned French Creole style home, right off River Rd. in Brusly.
Waymark Code: WM560M
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 11/16/2008
Views: 5
Privately owned home, located on E. Main St. located next to a small grocery Store. Easy to find, park and photograph. I could find NO history on home, so here is a bit from the Register application, I located
here .
The Hebert House is locally significant in the area of architecture within West Baton Rouge
Parish because it is a rare example of the French Creole influence in an area once dominated by
this building tradition.
Like the other parishes along the lower Mississippi, West Baton Rouge was originally settled
by Frenchmen who built houses in the Creole tradition. Hundreds of such structures must have
existed at one time. However, the parish's partially completed historic structures inventory indicates
that most of these Creole houses have been lost or deteriorated to the extent that their integrity is
compromised. The data from the surveyed region can be taken as indicative of the entire parish's
surviving Creole patrimony because the completed area, examined by an authority familiar with
West Baton Rouge's history and settlement patterns, includes all of the parish's high probability sites
for Creole settlement (i.e., the River Road).
The data shows a preliminary total of 73 houses (from over 211, 50+ year old buildings
surveyed to date) reflecting some Creole influence. However, the overwhelming majority of these
buildings are quarters houses which are "Creole" only in that they exhibit the general massing
(umbrella roof and full facade gallery) of a Creole structure. Only ten of the 73 Creole-influenced
buildings are more substantial, and of these, only six survive with enough stylistic features or historic
integrity to merit their identification as genuine Creole homes.