OUR LADYOF PEACE CATHOLIC CHURCH Vacherie, Louisiana
National Register of Historic Places Data
OUR LADYOF PEACE CATHOLIC CHURCH has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 13000299
- Date Listed
- May 22, 2013
- Name
- Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church
- Other Names
- Notre Dame de la Paix
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- 13281 LA 644
- City/Town
- Vacherie
- County
- St. James
- State
- Louisiana
- Category
- building
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- ARCHITECTURE; BLACK
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church has local and parish wide significance under Criterion C: Design in the area of Architecture because it is the only architectural landmark in the St. James Parish community of Vacherie as well as being an architectural landmark parish wide. Additionally, it is the most notable example of the Gothic Revival architectural style in St. James Parish. The church's Gothic verticality is very expressive of its domination of the built environment in the parish. The period of significance for this case is 1893-1900, the years when construction of the church took place. Our Lady of Peace is also locally significant under Criterion A: Event in the area of Ethnic Heritage/(by both black and white members working together) and later during the Jim Crow Era. The periods of significance for this case are 1893-1908 and 1942-1956. As will be evident from the following narratives, the church was the site of some of these efforts (direct association) and remains the focus of others that were instigated by the church in the broader community. Since some of the locations of the latter no longer survive or can no longer be identified, the church is the surviving resource most directly associated with these events.
