These areas are getting pounded by the hurricane right now, was just down to these towns last week.
This is one of the oldest houses in Louisiana (Francois Darby House), it was built in the late 1790s as part of a plantation on a Spanish land grant in what would become the tiny town of Baldwin along the Teche Bayou. Notice the high pitched roofs common in most French colonial architecture built during the 18th century.
A beautiful Greek Revival house in the well preserved town of Franklin, LA right south of Baldwin.
Completely unrelated to Cajun south Louisiana but this is the 1892 Bishops Palace in Galveston. The Library of Congress has listed at as one of the 14 most important Victorian architectural masterpieces in the nation. The American Institute of Architects has listed the building as one of the 100 significant buildings in America.