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Mission Chapel or Our Lady of Lourdes (Remains), Violet, LA.
Father Borredon approached Oliver Livaudais, Sr., an attorney and son of a local judge, had began the Borgnemouth Realty Company who owned the land the church would eventually be built on. With permission, Father Boredon established a mission chapel on that property in what is now the town of Violet. On September 15, 1908, the Board of Directors of Borgnemouth Realty Company authorized their president, Sylvester P. Walmsley, and their secretary Oliver S. Livaudais Sr., to sign an act of sale for the transfer of lots three, four, five, six and seven in square one, town of Borgnemouth for the sum of one dollar, subject to the restriction that the property could "only be used for church and school purposes." A small chapel under the patronage of Our Lady of Lourdes was constructed in 1916 shortly thereafter. They eventually upgraded to a new building not far from this abandoned Katrina damaged building, leaving this one to decay.
Mission Chapel or Our Lady of Lourdes (Remains), Violet, LA.
Father Borredon approached Oliver Livaudais, Sr., an attorney and son of a local judge, had began the Borgnemouth Realty Company who owned the land the church would eventually be built on. With permission, Father Boredon established a mission chapel on that property in what is now the town of Violet. On September 15, 1908, the Board of Directors of Borgnemouth Realty Company authorized their president, Sylvester P. Walmsley, and their secretary Oliver S. Livaudais Sr., to sign an act of sale for the transfer of lots three, four, five, six and seven in square one, town of Borgnemouth for the sum of one dollar, subject to the restriction that the property could "only be used for church and school purposes." A small chapel under the patronage of Our Lady of Lourdes was constructed in 1916 shortly thereafter. They eventually upgraded to a new building not far from this abandoned Katrina damaged building, leaving this one to decay.