Little Texas - Paulina, LA
N 30° 01.317 W 090° 43.183
15R E 719908 N 3323407
Also known as the Genre House. Located at 2834 LA 44 Paulina, LA. This c1840 French Creole/Greek Revival Plantation Home was easy to find.
Waymark Code: WM4TYW
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 09/29/2008
Views: 10
Privately owned plantation home. On my visit It looked as if home was vacant. I parked in driveway to take photos. Looked as if it has been recently painted or cleaned. Looked in VERY nice shape.
Here is a brief history, taken from the Register Application
Little Texas Little Texas is locally significant in the area of architecture because it is among a limited
number of French Creole residences in St. James Parish, which once had many more examples. It
is also among the oldest Creole homes in the parish and displays rare surviving construction
techniques.
The 1858 Persac Map of the Mississippi River shows approximately 111 St. James Parish
plantations identified by the names of their owners. In addition, the map depicts a large number of
unnamed agricultural tracts. Because the Creoles were the dominant group to settle and develop the
area before the Civil War, it is fair to assume that many of the houses on these plantations would
have been in the Creole style. Thus, one can legitimately estimate that St. James Parish had a
minimum of perhaps 150 Creole style houses in 1858. However, the Historic Structures Survey of
the parish indicates that only about 31 Creole houses remain. Eighteen of these date from after
1870, leaving only thirteen to represent the parish's earlier Creole tradition. Little Texas is one of
these. In addition, Little Texas is one of only nine Creole dwellings in the parish which use
colombage construction (half timbering with infill) in their walls, and its stacked cypress block piers
are a rare surviving example of this building technique.