The Badin-Roque House is a historic house located along

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, about southeast of

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in the community of

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. The house was listed on the

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on June 6, 1980.

History

Originally built in the early nineteenth century, it is a

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French Creole cottage with

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construction walls. Several alterations were made in the 1830s when a beaded

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ceiling was added, along with board and batten fenestration, and in 1850, when it was added the actual pitched roof and siding. wit
two photos and two maps
With . First owner of land where the house is standing was Francois Frederic, who sold it to the free Creole of color, Augustin Metoyer in 1827. In 1840, Augustin Metoyer had his lands and buildings appraised and donated the property to his son Jean Baptiste Augustin Metoyer Jr. In 1855, the parcel comprising the house was sold to Sigmund Kisffy, who sold it to the Reverend Auguste Marie Martin in 1856. Bishop Martin used the house as a mission convent for the

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, a French order of teaching nuns. Bishop Martin sold the property to Jean Napoleon Burdin in 1859. After the death of Burdin, the property was acquired by George Lahaye in 1866, who sold it to Gristoffe Bussi, an Italian baker, in 1867. The property was acquired at an unknown date by Norbert Badin, a distant relative to Augustin Metoyer, and the property passed to his daughter Zeline Badin Roque in 1927. After her death, the house was acquired by Edward Antee, from which the property was acquired by the St. Augustine Historical Society in 1979.

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* Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana Houses completed in 1830 Houses in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana National Register of Historic Places in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana 1830 establishments in Louisiana Creole cottage architecture in the United States Creole architecture in Louisiana {{Louisiana-NRHP-stub

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