Arson destroys Civil War governor's mansion in Louisiana, Arson destroyed an antebellum acreage abode that served as the governor's abode for nine months during the Civil War and damaged a building beneath than a mile abroad on Thursday, the Louisiana State Blaze Marshal's Appointment said.
The Old Governor's Abode austere to the ground, but the blaze at the Louisiana Orphan Train Building allegedly austere out adequately quickly, said Brant Thompson, arch agent for the blaze marshal's office.
Museum workers begin blaze accident if they accustomed for plan Thursday morning, he said.
"We don't apperceive whether there's any affiliation amid the two fires. But absolutely we'd not aphorism that out," Thompson said.
He said board do apperceive both were arson. He wouldn't accord data because the analysis is continuing.
The Louisiana Orphan Train Building commemorates the trains that brought alone or abandoned accouchement from New York to rural homes from 1854 to 1929, and the accouchement who rode on them. Opelousas, about 55 afar west of Baton Rouge, was a part of the places to which such accouchement were beatific from the New York Foundling Hospital.
Opelousas was Louisiana's basic for about nine months in 1862 and 1863, afterwards Union troops bedeviled Baton Rouge. If the Union Army captured Opelousas, the basic confused again, to Shreveport in northwest Louisiana.
Gov. Thomas O. Moore lived and had his address in the mansion.
The abode was congenital about 1850 and bought anon thereafter by Lastie Dupre, whose ancestor had been governor briefly in the 1830s. Lastie Dupre bought the abode for his daughter, whose bedmate became abettor governor during the Civil War, said James Douget, admiral of Preservationists of St. Landry Inc.
"When the basic confused to Opelousas, Gov. Moore bare a abode to stay, so they opened the abode to him," Douget said.
Laws anesthetized while the governor and Legislature were in Opelousas included the acceptance law acceptance Louisiana's Confederate government to abstract men into its army.
Douget said the abode had been abandoned during renovations for about two years, and had been active by assorted families afore that.
Douget said he'd been to the Old Governor's Abode a anniversary ago and afresh on Wednesday, and had been aflame by the advance of renovations.
"It looked like it was traveling on fast-forward, and I was acquisitive it would be opened up adequately soon," he said.
On Thursday, Douget said, "I saw one of Louisiana's treasures in ashes."
The Old Governor's Abode austere to the ground, but the blaze at the Louisiana Orphan Train Building allegedly austere out adequately quickly, said Brant Thompson, arch agent for the blaze marshal's office.
Museum workers begin blaze accident if they accustomed for plan Thursday morning, he said.
"We don't apperceive whether there's any affiliation amid the two fires. But absolutely we'd not aphorism that out," Thompson said.
He said board do apperceive both were arson. He wouldn't accord data because the analysis is continuing.
The Louisiana Orphan Train Building commemorates the trains that brought alone or abandoned accouchement from New York to rural homes from 1854 to 1929, and the accouchement who rode on them. Opelousas, about 55 afar west of Baton Rouge, was a part of the places to which such accouchement were beatific from the New York Foundling Hospital.
Opelousas was Louisiana's basic for about nine months in 1862 and 1863, afterwards Union troops bedeviled Baton Rouge. If the Union Army captured Opelousas, the basic confused again, to Shreveport in northwest Louisiana.
Gov. Thomas O. Moore lived and had his address in the mansion.
The abode was congenital about 1850 and bought anon thereafter by Lastie Dupre, whose ancestor had been governor briefly in the 1830s. Lastie Dupre bought the abode for his daughter, whose bedmate became abettor governor during the Civil War, said James Douget, admiral of Preservationists of St. Landry Inc.
"When the basic confused to Opelousas, Gov. Moore bare a abode to stay, so they opened the abode to him," Douget said.
Laws anesthetized while the governor and Legislature were in Opelousas included the acceptance law acceptance Louisiana's Confederate government to abstract men into its army.
Douget said the abode had been abandoned during renovations for about two years, and had been active by assorted families afore that.
Douget said he'd been to the Old Governor's Abode a anniversary ago and afresh on Wednesday, and had been aflame by the advance of renovations.
"It looked like it was traveling on fast-forward, and I was acquisitive it would be opened up adequately soon," he said.
On Thursday, Douget said, "I saw one of Louisiana's treasures in ashes."
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