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  2. Decareaux House - Wikipedia

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    The Decareaux House, also known as the Creole House Museum, is a historic house located at 16061 Louisiana Highway 16 in French Settlement, Louisiana, United States. Built in c.1898, the house is a one-story frame cottage in French Creole style. It was constructed by Harris and Alexander Lambert as a home for Mr. and Mrs. Alex Decareaux.

  3. List of Tiny Desk Concerts - Wikipedia

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    Text logo. Tiny Desk Concerts is a video series of live concerts hosted by NPR Music at the desk of former All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen in Washington, D.C.. The first Tiny Desk Concert came about in 2008 after Boilen and NPR Music editor Stephen Thompson left South by Southwest frustrated that they couldn't hear the music over the crowd noise.

  4. Creole architecture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the U.S. south, a creole cottage is a type of vernacular architecture indigenous to the Gulf Coast of the United States.The style was a dominant house type along the central Gulf Coast from about 1790 to 1840 in the former settlements of French Louisiana in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

  5. Laura Plantation - Wikipedia

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    Instead, the Colapissa continued to live on the rear part of the plantation until 1915. Duparc's slaves built his plantation house during 1804 and 1805. The house had a U-shape, with the two back wings around a central courtyard. A detached kitchen building in the back, separate to protect the main house from fire and keep it cooler in summer.

  6. French Louisianians - Wikipedia

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    An Illinois Creole house of Prairie du Rocher, Illinois. The Louisiana Purchase brought about a marked change: francophones of Ste. Genevieve and St. Louis assimilated more rapidly into English-speaking American society because of interaction with new settlers, while the inland mining communities remained isolated and maintained their French ...

  7. Creole House - Wikipedia

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    The Creole House is a historic residence in the village of Prairie du Rocher, an old French settlement in present-day Randolph County, Illinois, United States.Built at the end of the eighteenth century and later expanded, the Creole House is the last survivor in Illinois of its type of vernacular architecture, and it forms an important part of the built environment of a portion of the Upper ...

  8. Cornelius House - Wikipedia

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    Cornelius House may refer to: In the United States. Cock-Cornelius House, Locust Valley, New York; Cornelius House (Mooresville, North Carolina)

  9. Creole music - Wikipedia

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    The term Creole music (French: musique créole) is used to refer to two distinct musical traditions: art songs adapted from 19th-century vernacular music; or the vernacular traditions of Louisiana Creole people which have persisted as 20th- and 21st-century la la and zydeco in addition to influencing Cajun music.