- Earlier Days In Leonville, La and Environs -
Photo Album 4
|
|
|
An extension of the house was made to the east by carpenter Gonelas Doré. On the western side of the porch, a typical cajun stairway to the attic (le garçonniere) was a part of the original structure.
The original house did not have a kitchen. The outdoor kitchen was apart and to the rear of the house, but after , J. C. Speyrer's first wife, Eula Lee Richard, developed pneumonia, the kitchen was enclosed as part of the house and a porch was added to the back of the dwelling.
Through the years it has hosted many family gatherings, home dances (balles des maison). Catholic Mass was offered there by Jesuit priests from nearby Grand Coteau before St. Leo's Church was erected. Fr. Jules C. Speyrer remarks, "If those walls had ears . . . and if they could now talk. . "