Things to Do in New Iberia
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Local Time 8:30 pm Friday, July 25, 2008
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on December 24, 2004
Eventually after going around the block about 3 times (because the street was one way), we turned into the bank parking lot (it was Saturday afternoon so we didn't think we'd get into trouble) and saw the sign on the side of the building that said it was the visitor's center. It was on the side away from the traffic, so you'd have to look back at it to see it.
We paid our money ($6.25 each for over 62) and took the tour. This was another place that wouldn't let me take pictures inside because of 'security'. Personally if I were going to steal something, I wouldn't need a camera for that - I could use my Mark I eyeball. But at least they told us up front.
At the visitor's center, I found out that I did not tour Shadows when we were here before because it did not open to the public until 1961. It had been in the original family that built it (David and Mary Weeks in 1834) until the last member (their great grandson William Weeks Hall) died in 1958, one day after signing a contract to give it to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It has almost all of the original furnishings (unlike Oak Alley) and extensive documentation.
The Shadows-on-the-Teche is an antebellum historic house museum. It is the only National Trust building in Louisiana.
Guided tours daily 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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