National Register Listing

Freetown-Port Rico Historic District

Roughly bounded by E. University, Lee & Lucille Aves., Garfield, Coolidge & Taft Sts., Jefferson Blvd., Lafayette, LA
Local significance of the district:
Community Planning And Development; Black; European; Other-ethnic; Social History; Architecture

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.