Olivier Plantation, Plantation Store, LA Highway 83, Lydia, Iberia Parish, LA

2002 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place
Significance: Although many plantation stores survive in Louisiana, the Olivier Plantation Store is significant due to several uncommon architectural features. As historians have noted, a basic store typology overwhelmingly dominates the rural Louisiana store. Typically the store is a one story wooden structure composed of a linear plan with the gable ridge running the store's length. The building usually boasts gables at each end or often a false facade. Shed additions frequently appear at the sides or rear. Most of these country oasis welcome customers with a broad front covered porch.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N801
Survey number: HABS LA-1305-A
Building/structure dates: 1908 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1936- ca. 1939 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: after. 1960- before. 1969 Subsequent Work