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266:(mud, mixed with animal hair, between posts). The ground floor was used for utilitarian purposes, such as office, storage, cooking, etc. The upper-level was used for living—a central parlor with a fireplace opens onto a broad gallery across the front and onto an inner loggia at back, with bedrooms situated to either side. To the rear,
218:, 4 July 1976, by the Louisiana Tourist Commission, dates the house (again without citation) to 1765; and the late Emery Hebert, who owned Darby House from 2001 to 2014, in an undated handout follows suit, citing the 1765 date but incongruously naming the builder as Alfred Hennnen, who was born in 1786.
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Johnson, 5 October 1976, gives a building date of 1764-1776. These two articles, although discrepant, are especially noteworthy in that the Johnson family owned or resided in the Massé/Darby House from 1938 until 1981, and apparently possessed documentation now lost or unavailable to present
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In 1969 the House was purchased by the St. Mary Bank, which, in 1981, commissioned
Leonard L. Battaglia to research the property transfers for the house. Battaglia traced the land upon which the house stands to an original Spanish land grant to Andre Massé, but his report contains no mention of the
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Andre Massé was, arguably, the earliest settler of the
Attakapas. A census of 1766 records M. Massé with household, including 24 slaves, near present-day Charenton, three miles from Baldwin. Thus Massé was well-established early on, with a sizeable entourage. It is plausible—indeed likely—that M.
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The Massé/Darby House has been owned by, or home to several locally prominent people over the years, including
Agricole Fusellier and Charles Grevemberg. It was owned at the time of the Civil War by François Optat Darby (a captain in the Confederate Army) and subsequently purchased in 1867 by the
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National Register of Historic Places, is presently unverified. An undocumented newspaper article in possession of the current owner of the house dates the Darby House to 1782 and names the builder as Andre Massé,
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Baldwin, Louisiana, has suffered from confusion or misreading of others sorts. Much confusion has arisen from the existence of another house known by the same name and of similar period and style—no longer standing but still remembered—in nearby New Iberia. Yet
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