Millet House

The Millet House is a historic Creole cottage on the east bank of the Mississippi River in what is now Gramercy, Louisiana.

It was built around 1830 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999 as part of a Multiple Property Submission.

[3] Jean Millet, an Acadian, moved to Louisiana prior to 1776 and the family owned the property on which the house sites by 1823.

The house has many hallmarks of a Creole architecture cottage style including an umbrella roof, a high brick pier foundation, and a wraparound mantel.

The construction techniques also added to the historic value including briquette-entre-poteaux (brick-between-post) colombage walls made with bousillage.